Legal Aid Caught Smuggling Weed Into NYC’s Rikers Island
If you're trying to become a lawyer, sneaking contraband into Rikers Island isn't the best way to get started. The New York Post reports a Legal Aid Society staffer was busted for trying to smuggle weed and tobacco to a Rikers Island inmate. Thanks to a drug-sniffing dog, Tatyana King, who was posing as a lawyer, was charged with illegal possession of contraband in a prison. King was arrested while trying to visit Shyanne Patterson, an inmate accused of attempted murder. Riders Island guards searched her belongings and found bags of marijuana and tobacco. GlobalVillageSpace legal-aid-staff-caught-smuggling-weed-into-rikers-posing-as-lawyer-sources/">says she tricked correction officers last month and signed in as a staff lawyer for Legal Aid, New York's largest nonprofit legal aid, while visiting inmates, however, King wasn't assigned to Patterson's case. According to…