Man charged with trying to smuggle drugs into Roxbury Correctional Institution

A Waldorf, Md., man has been charged in connection with a plot to smuggle drugs into one of the state prisons south of Hagerstown, according to Washington County District Court records.

Anthony Lamont Hagens, 37, was charged with distributing suboxone and seven other counts filed Tuesday related to accusations that he possessed the drug and conspired to deliver it to an inmate at Roxbury Correctional Institution, court records said.

He was ordered held without bond after a bond review hearing Wednesday before Washington County District Judge Terry A. Myers, records said.

An intelligence officer at the prison contacted the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services’ Intelligence and Investigation Division about an inmate offering a confidential informant $500 to bring him suboxone and tobacco, court records said.

Upon learning that Hagens allegedly would bring the items to the informant at the Mapleville Road park and ride east of Hagerstown, Intelligence and Investigation Division detectives set up a perimeter at the facility.

Hagens was seen handing the informant the cash and a bag containing 99 grams of suspected tobacco and two separate bags containing a total of 308 suboxone strips, court records said.

After Hagens was detained, he told authorities that he was contacted by a former cellmate who offered to pay him $200 to drive to Baltimore to pick up tobacco and $500 cash and then deliver those items to the informant.

He said he didn’t know there were two bags of suboxone in the tobacco, records said.