A Florida defense attorney was arrested in connection to a monthslong investigation into how illegal drugs were finding their way in to the county jail.
Nathan Williams, 37, was arrested on Jan. 5 and charged with eight felonies including two counts of giving drugs or controlled substances to an inmate. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in a press conference held on Jan. 7, Williams allegedly conspired with inmates at the Duval County Jail and their family members to smuggle in “drug-soaked” paperwork that he claimed were legal documents.
During the press conference, Undersheriff Shawn Coarsey said that Operation Stamp Collection was a long-term investigation into the flow of illegal drugs to inmates at the Duval County Jail in Jacksonville. The investigation was prompted by a spike in overdoses among the inmate population. Williams, a local criminal defense attorney, was one of 21 arrests made in connection to the investigation, which began in February 2024.
Coarsey stated that the arrests were not part of a larger conspiracy, but that they were 21 individual arrests.
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Criminal defense attorney allegedly smuggled ‘drug-soaked’ papers into jail for inmates
