A drug-smuggling prison guard began “training as a hairdresser” after she was caught by cops ransacking her home.
A shamed Rio Moran, 31, was recruited by criminals to facilitate their elaborate plan to infiltrate HMP Doncaster smuggling.
But she was shocked when the cops broke into her house and found a shipment of drugs and phones meant for the prison.
And while officers searched the property, a dozing delivery man, 30-year-old Callum Reilly, arrived and tried to send another contraband through the front door.
The 31-year-old guard was arrested when she showed up for a shift in a category B prison in November 2020.
After ruining her career to smuggle drugs and phones into dangerous lags, Moran tried her hand at hairdressing while awaiting trial.
The blonde posted a status on Facebook back in July last year, asking, “Does anyone know which barbershops take on apprentices??? Let me know please! Thanks”.
A few months later, she shared another post in which she called on models to volunteer to help her style her hair in order to complete college course requirements.
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Moran wrote: “If anyone wants their hair dyed, tinted, trimmed, treated with conditioner or simply washed and styled etc. at virtually no cost, give me a message.
Everything for college. Thanks”.
A bent screw had just moved into her new home in Sowerby, West Yorkshire when she was arrested for a smuggling scheme.
She managed to escape prison security due to her role allowing her to supply James Millington with contraband for other inmates.
One neighbor told The Sun Online: “One week she was moving in with all her belongings, and three weeks later the police were crawling through the house and she was arrested.
“In those first weeks, we saw guests come and go, and we assumed they were just friends who came to see her new home.
One week she moved in with all her belongings, three weeks later the police crawled through the apartment and she was arrested.
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“It’s funny to think that they brought her drugs and stuff to smuggle into prison.”
Another resident added: “I said hello to her several times and she was very smiling and cheerful.
“I really thought she might be a police officer because of what I saw on her.”
Moran’s former home is empty long before Christmas, according to locals.
She pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply Class B drugs to the prison, conspiracy to transfer List B items to the prison, and money laundering.
The 31-year-old woman was sentenced to two years in prison and Judge Richardson warned her that she was in for “difficult” times because of her former job.
The items were to be sent to Millington, whose partner Claire Anderson was also involved in the plot.
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The officers then attacked Anderson’s home and also found a shipment of drugs and telephones believed to be destined for the prison.
Millington, 31, of HMP Leeds, pleaded guilty to supplying Class B and C drugs to the prison between 2017 and 2020, conspiring to supply Class B drugs to the prison, and conspiring to transfer List B items to the prison.
He is now imprisoned for seven years and nine months.
Reilly, a 30-year-old delivery man from Stockport, pleaded guilty to supplying Class B drugs to Claire Anderson, conspiring to deliver Schedule B items to prison, and money laundering.
He was sentenced to 12 months behind bars.
Anderson, 32, Stockport, pleaded guilty to supplying Class B and C drugs to the prison between 2017 and 2020, conspiring to supply Class B drugs to the prison, and conspiring to transfer List B items to the prison.
The sentencing was postponed until March 25.