By Dale Lezon
The Houston Chronicle
HOUSTON — A state prison guard has been arrested on suspicion of allegedly planning to distribute heroin after he was snared in a sting operation Wednesday, federal officials said.
Alejandro Smith, 21, is accused in a criminal complaint of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute heroin, according to federal authorities. He is scheduled to appear in federal court Friday.
Federal officials said investigators obtained information in May that Smith, who is a guard at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Eastham Unit in Houston County, was giving contraband to inmates at the facility where he worked. Officials investigated the allegations and then set up a sting to nab Smith.
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