A dim-witted former sheriff's deputy in Los Angeles will spend two years behind bars for trying to slip courthouse jail prisoners a burrito stuffed with heroin.
Henry Marin, 27, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to smuggling drugs into a jail.
The former deputy was nailed in a sting operation at the Airport Branch Courthouse in February 2010.
Prosecutors said Marin accepted the drug-filled Mexican delicacy from a woman working with a sheriff's team investigating smuggling at the courthouse.
The bean-and-cheese burrito was filled with 24 grams of black tar heroin, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Marin later said he didn't know the burrito was stuffed with smack.
He resigned in April and pleaded guilty to drug smuggling and conspiracy charges.
The conspiracy charges were dropped as part of a plea deal.
His attorney, Donald N. Kelly, told the Times that Marin wasn't being paid to sneak the drugs into jail.
"This guy has no guile," Kelly said. "I think he was someone who was taken advantage of ... He didn't realize any gain from it."
In 2007, Marin appeared on the Fox reality show, "The Academy," which followed a group of L.A. sheriff’s recruits, but he was kicked off for poor performance.
The show's cameras caught the wannabe crime-fighter dozing during meetings and flubbing his duties during role-playing exercises.
He later re-enrolled in the academy after the show.
"He certainly wasn't one of our best," a sheriff's spokesman told the Times after his arrest.
With News Wire Services
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