North Carolina Woman Sentenced To Prison For Contraband Introduction

WILLIAMSPORT- The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kanyhi Roberson, age 32, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Matthew W. Brann to four months of imprisonment for providing contraband to a federal prison inmate.

According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, in August 2022, Roberson was visiting an acquaintance at the Federal Correctional Complex - Allenwood. During the visit, Roberson prepared a food item for the inmate and passed it to him with several napkins, which the inmate then placed against his face. Corrections officers found this behavior suspicious and searched the inmate, finding 75 strips of Suboxone (a Schedule III narcotic) in his cheek. Roberson previously entered a guilty plea in this case in December 2025.

The Bureau of Prisons and the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case. Assistant United States Attorney Geoffrey W. MacArthur prosecuted the case.

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