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Leavenworth Prison Guard Sentenced for Smuggling Tobacco to Inmates
Marc Buckner, a former guard at USP Leavenworth, got three years in federal prison for taking bribes to smuggle tobacco to inmates.
Written by Brandon Sample · Updated · Filed under Prison and BOP
A former guard at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, was sentenced to three years in prison for taking bribes from inmates. Marc Buckner had pled guilty to one count of a public official accepting bribes. Buckner started working for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1995.
Buckner smuggled tobacco and rolling papers into the prison, hidden in two handmade insoles in his shoes. Inmates paid him $750 for each can of tobacco and rolling papers. He did this about once or twice a month for years. The FBI arrested him in March 2014, when tobacco, rolling papers, and $1,521 in cash were found in the special insoles he had made.
People in federal prison are not allowed to have tobacco. The Bureau of Prisons banned it several years before this case.
Sources: U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas, plea and sentencing announcements; cjonline.com.
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