A former California prison employee was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for smuggling methamphetamine and other contraband to inmates at San Quentin, authorities said Friday.
Keith Randle, 57, of Vallejo, was caught inside the prison in August 2024 with 301 grams of methamphetamine hidden in a hollowed-out peanut butter jar painted brown and glued shut, according to his plea agreement.
Randle worked as a janitor at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as San Quentin State Prison.
Randle admitted to smuggling meth, marijuana and tobacco to inmates in exchange for payments, a scheme that began in January 2019 and continued through August 2024, prosecutors said.
Randle charged inmates and their associates about $1,000 per item, according to the plea agreement. Randle initially took payments from inmates, but later sought money from their associates because he feared investigators would uncover the scheme…