SANTA FE — The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office devised a sting operation at the Santa Fe County jail this summer that resulted in charges against 10 detainees and non-detainees accused of smuggling Suboxone into the facility, according to court records.

A statement of probable cause states that 38-year-old detainee Pedro Talamante and his brother Diego Talamante, 33, collected payments via CashApp from people incarcerated at the facility in exchange for strips of the drug, which is commonly prescribed to treat opioid-use disorder but can be abused.

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