Politics & Government
Woman Uses Daughter as Decoy to Sneak Pot Into Federal Prison, Sentenced to Home Detention
Heather A. Maniglia, of Bolingbrook, will serve three months of home detention and an additional three months of supervised release.
A Bolingbrook woman was sentenced to three months of home detention by a U.S. District Court judge Tuesday in Indianapolis after she plead guilty to trying to sneak marijuana into a federal prison last year.
According to an FBI Indianapolis release, Heather A. Maniglia, 24, of Bolingbrook, admitted that during a visitation in April 2010, she passed Robert Thomas, 24, an inmate of a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., two balloons filled with marijuana, which he swallowed before police inspected him.
The release said Maniglia placed the balloons inside of a bag of Doritos and used her daughter as a distraction.
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For his part, Thomas was sentenced to nine months in prison to be served consecutive to his current sentence.
Maniglia was also ordered to three years of supervised release.
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The case was the result of an investigation by the FBI and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the release said.
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