KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Shawnee, Kansas attorney was sentenced in federal court Tuesday for smuggling heroin to an inmate at the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron, Missouri, with whom she had a romantic relationship.
Juliane L. Colby, 44, was sentenced to one year and one month in federal prison without parole.
On Feb. 8, 2022, Colby pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin.
Colby admitted that she conspired with others to smuggle heroin to an inmate at the prison, identified in court documents as “Conspirator 1,” from Aug. 1 to Aug. 10, 2019.
She hid the heroin in an envelope marked as “Legal Mail” that also contained numerous pleadings and documents from an inactive criminal court case along with photos of herself. Eight small baggies containing a total of 3.25 grams of black tar heroin were taped behind the flap of the envelope.
The envelope was labeled with a fictitious return address for a law firm and addressed to another inmate, identified in court documents as “Conspirator 2,” who was housed in the same unit as Conspirator 1.
According to court documents, Colby began a romantic relationship with “Conspirator 1” while she was working as an attorney on his defense team with the state public defender’s office in 2017.
“Conspirator 1” was represented by a public defender at that time and was an inmate at the Jackson County jail facing a charge of first-degree murder. While the murder case was pending, “Conspirator 1” was found to have illegally possessed a cell phone that had been smuggled into the jail.
Colby and “Conspirator 1” communicated with each other using the contraband cell phone. As a result, Colby faced criminal charges for acting in concert in possession of a cell phone in a correctional facility. She entered a diversion agreement, which she successfully completed on May 14, 2019, and the charges were dismissed.
In August 2019, Colby regularly visited “Conspirator 1” at the Cameron correctional center, where he was serving a sentence for his murder conviction. Colby and “Conspirator 1” had a series of phone conversations during which they used a variety of code words to discuss the plan to mail heroin and contraband into the center. During these calls, Colby and “Conspirator 1” also discussed a previous successful delivery of heroin. These calls were monitored and recorded by the correctional center.
This case was investigated by the FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Cameron Police Department and Missouri Department of Corrections.
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