A former staffer at a Brooklyn detention center for teens was charged Thursday with smuggling razor blades, weed and oxycodone into the facility for close to a year — once again highlighting a broader contraband problem at the facility, authorities said.

Lymek Frazier, 33, a youth development specialist there until his firing in January, was charged Wednesday after investigators found that he had been paid more than $72,000 via a phone cash app by youth held at the Crossroads Juvenile Center and their associates, authorities said.

“This defendant was trusted to ensure the safety and well-being of the young people under his supervision as a youth development specialist,” said Jocelyn Strauber, commissioner of the city Department of Investigation. “He betrayed that trust.”

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