SCRANTON—The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle
District of Pennsylvania announced that Thomas Coss, age 37, of Scranton,
Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 17, 2019, to 17 months’ imprisonment by
Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, for possessing illegal
drugs and contraband inside the Lackawanna County Prison.
According to United States Attorney David J. Freed, Coss
previously pleaded guilty to possessing contraband in prison. Coss admitted
that between July 2015 and April 2016, while an inmate at the prison, he
obtained, possessed and attempted to obtain suboxone and tobacco that were
smuggled into the prison by others on several occasions. To date, four people
have been charged in connection with the investigation.
Judge Caputo imposed the 17-month sentence to run
consecutive to a sentence Coss is currently serving in state prison for an
unrelated crime. Judge Caputo also ordered Coss to serve two years on
supervised release following his prison sentence.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the Pennsylvania State Police. Assistant U.S. Attorney
Francis P. Sempa prosecuted the case.
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