FOUR INDIVIDUALS CHARGED WITH PROVIDING CONTRABAND TO FEDERAL INMATES AT PENSACOLA FEDERAL PRISON CAMP

Pensacola - Gregory R. Miller, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that CRAIG D. ENGLAND, CURTIS G. PATTERSON, KAREN S. NIGHTENGALE and STEPHANIE MAYER have been charged with providing federal inmates with contraband.

CRAIG D. ENGLAND is charged with conspiracy to accept a bribe, bribery and providing contraband to an federal inmate. ENGLAND faces over thirty years imprisonment and fines of over $500,000.

CURTIS G. PATTERSON is charged with conspiracy to accept a bribe, bribery and providing contraband to an federal inmate. PATTERSON faces over thirty years imprisonment and fines of over $500,000.

KAREN S. NIGHTENGALE is charged with conspiracy to accept an unlawful gratuity, accepting an unlawful gratuity, making a false statement to an special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and providing contraband to an federal inmate. NIGHTENGALE faces over twelve years imprisonment and fines of over $750,000.

STEPHANIE MAYER is charged with providing contraband to a federal inmate. She faces up to six months imprisonment and fines of up to $250,000.

ENGLAND and PATTERSON are accused of accepting money in return for granting federal inmates special privileges and providing federal inmates contraband. The indictment alleges that during 2005, ENGLAND received money on behalf of inmates incarcerated at the Federal Prison Camp Pensacola in exchange for delivering money, nutritional supplements and cellular telephones to the federal prison inmates who worked on his detail at Naval Air Station, Pensacola.

The indictment alleges that during 2005, PATTERSON received money from an inmate in return for delivering a laptop computer to an inmate then incarcerated at Federal Prison Camp Pensacola.

The indictment alleges that during 2005, NIGHTENGALE accepted an item of jewelry from someone who was represented to be the family member of an inmate in return for delivering an item of contraband to a federal inmate who worked under her supervision at Naval Air Station, Pensacola.

The information which was filed alleges that MAYER also delivered contraband to a federal inmate who worked under her supervision at Naval Air Station, Pensacola.

The investigation which led to the filing of these indictments and the information was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Inspector General - United States Department of Justice, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

The indictment and information are charging documents, and all of these individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.