BOSTON, March 28, 2017—A former guard at the South Bay House of Correction was arraigned today alongside an inmate with whom he allegedly engaged in a conspiracy to bring drugs and other contraband into the facility, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

MARLON JUBA (D.O.B. 3/21/87) of Lynn and ZENON “DOUGHBOY” RODRIGUEZ (D.O.B. 11/7/90) of Chelsea were both indicted March 13 and arraigned today on charges of conspiracy to violate the state’s drug laws.

Juba, the former guard, is additionally charged with three counts of unlawful delivery of items to or from an inmate, three counts of delivering or possessing with intent to deliver drugs to an inmate; and three counts of distribution of a Class B substance.

Rodriguez is additionally charged with three counts of unlawful delivery of items to or from an inmate, five counts of delivering or possessing with intent to deliver drugs to an inmate, and four counts of distribution of a Class B substance, as well as two counts of witness intimidation and single counts of threats, and violating a restraining order.

Assistant District Attorney Lindsey Weinstein recommended that Juba be held on $15,000 cash bail and Rodriguez on $75,000, with orders that each stay away from the other and the witnesses in the case. Clerk Magistrate Lisa Medeiros imposed $5,000 and $25,000, respectively, in addition to the stay-away orders.

Based on evidence and testimony developed in the course of a grand jury investigation with critical assistance from the Suffolk Sheriff’s Investigative Division, Boston Police, and civilian investigators assigned to the DA’s Narcotics Unit, Weinstein told the court that Juba and Rodriguez cooperated to bring drugs and other contraband into the South Bay House of Correction in the spring of 2016.

Specifically, Weinstein said, Rodriguez communicated with two friends on various telephone lines to coordinate meetings in which Juba would interact with Rodriguez at the corrections officers’ desk and then take a break from his shift, drive to a nearby fast food restaurant, and meet up with Zenon’s associates. Those associates, Weinstein said, provided him with bags of food – along with “K2” synthetic marijuana, cigarettes, cocaine, cell phone, chargers, and/or Suboxone strips. Juba would return to South Bay with the items and provide them to Rodriguez, who would distribute them.

Rodriguez allegedly told a witness over a recorded jail line not to cooperate with investigators and, on a later date after his release, threatened and intimidated the witness.  This witness obtained a restraining order against him, which Rodriguez allegedly violated by calling the witness from a phone in a police station booking room after his arrest.

Juba is represented by attorney Eduardo Masferrer and Rodriguez by attorney Daniel Solomon. They return to court on May 4.

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