A Methuen man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Boston to sending a package containing drugs to a federal prison.
Forty-three-year-old Tuere Barnes pleaded guilty to providing contraband in prison. U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs scheduled sentencing for May 11. Barnes was charged last month.
In January, according prosecutors, Barnes sent a package containing 460 sublingual strips laced with narcotics to be shipped to an inmate at a federal prison in Danbury, Conn. Lab testing showed a sample strip contained buprenorphine. Federal regulations prohibit possession of narcotics in federal correctional facilities. The U.S. attorney’s office said Barnes’s fingerprints were found on papers in the package.