Keep Bailing

You can call it lack of judgement, or maybe even temporary insanity. But whichever way you think of it, you can never really grasp why a 2-year veteran Los Angeles Deputy would smuggle, get this — 161.5 grams of heroin, 51.5 grams of marijuana and 24.4 grams of methamphetamine into the North County Correctional Facility, Castaic jail, and think he’d get away with it.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy, Peter Paul Felix, was arrested in October on the charges of attempting to smuggle the drugs into the jail where he worked. Tuesday, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison. As Felix was escorted in handcuffs from the Los Angeles courtroom, he mouthed the words, “I love you guys” to his girlfriend and sisters.

Felix’s attorney, Spencer R. Vodnoy said, “This has been devastating for him and his family… Sometimes good people make really bad decisions.”

An inmate who allegedly helped to arrange the drug exchange with Felix was also sentenced on Tuesday. He was given two years in prison.

As for Felix, he’ll have 4 years in a jail cell to think about his lack of judgement. Perhaps by then, he’ll realize what side of the fence he should have been playing on.