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A Petersburg federal inmate received an additional prison sentence for possessing fentanyl.

Carlos Contreras was sentenced to over three more years after already serving part of a 17.5-year sentence.

Guards found 27.8 grams of fentanyl on drug-soaked paper hidden behind a mirror in his cell.

Contreras was originally imprisoned for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy with the Texas Mexican Mafia.

An inmate at the Federal Correctional Complex-Petersburg has been given more prison time after guards discovered fentanyl hidden in his cell almost three years ago.

According to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Carlos Contreras, 45, of Laredo, Texas, was sentenced Sept. 3 in Richmond federal court to three years and three months on possession w

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