A Feb. 23 sentencing date is scheduled for a Lake Elsinore man who admitted taking a $1,000 bribe while working as a federal prison guard.
Luis Borjon, 52, pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting the cash to smuggle a cell phone into the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Borjon faces up to 15 years in federal prison when he is sentenced Feb. 23 by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner.
According to court documents, Borjon approached an inmate under his supervision at the prison in November 2012 and solicited a “loan.”
The inmate put Borjon in contact with a relative on the outside who met the guard at a gas station in Lake Elsinore, where he accepted the cash and a cell phone to smuggle into the prison.
Borjon smuggled the cell phone into the facility and delivered it to the inmate. Soon afterward, other correctional officers found the phone.
After being indicted by a federal grand jury, Borjon was arrested and subsequently freed on bond.
— City News Service