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More than thirty people were charged for their involvement in a drug-trafficking ring that was operating within the walls of the jail and beyond, following an eight-month-long investigation, announced Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and the Camden County Department of Corrections.
Members of the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force, including members assigned from the Camden County Correctional Facility, began the monthslong investigation known as Operation Paper Trail in October 2025.
Over the course of the operation, detectives seized more than 7 ounces of fentanyl, 12.9 ounces of MDMB-4en-PINACA (synthetic cannabinoid), 3.6 ounces of MDMB-4en-PINACA mixed with fentanyl, more than 1.6 ounces of phencyclidine (PCP), and 1.1 ounces of cocaine from inmates at the Camden County Correctional Facility and outside suppliers. Detectives identified 50-year-old Howard Dunns of Millville as one of the lead organizers. Dunns, who was already being held in the Cumberland County Correctional Facility, sought help from an associate to coordinate the supply of drugs to inmates in the jail.
Dunns and the associate coordinated the operation with at least two Camden County Correctional Facility inmates, Wilfredo Santiago, 31, of Vineland, and Kyle Jones, 31, of Millville, with the intent to have them introduce papers laced with drugs into the jail by disguising them as legal correspondence, with the goal of distribution for profit.
In March 2026, officers with the Camden County Department of Corrections seized two separate mail deliveries that appeared to be legal mailings intended for Santiago and Jones. The letters were submitted to the New Jersey State Police Forensic Laboratory and tested positive for MDMB-4en-PINACA.
Dunns was charged with two counts of 2nd -degree Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Dangerous Substance (PWID CDS). Jones and Santiago were charged with 2nd -degree Conspiracy to PWID CDS.
Early on in the investigation, detectives with the Camden County Department of Corrections also intercepted an envelope that appeared to be legal correspondence addressed to Billy Corbitt, a 21-year-old inmate from Camden. Upon further inspection, detectives found the legal correspondence to be inauthentic and traced the letter’s origin back to Damunaquan (Damu) Miller, 32, of Camden. The envelope was sent to the NJSP Forensic Laboratory and tested positive for cocaine.
Miller was charged with 2nd -degree PWID CDS, 2nd-degree Conspiracy to PWID CDS, and 3rd -degree Possession of a CDS. Corbitt was also charged with 2nd -degree Conspiracy to PWID CDS. Months after he was arrested and remanded to the Camden County Correctional Facility, Miller was charged again with 2nd -degree Conspiracy to PWID CDS for instructing an associate, later identified as Madison Colon-Walsh, 22, of Camden, to traffic drugs into the jail by sending false legal correspondence to another inmate, Rasheem Brown, 39, with the narcotics inside. This letter was also sent to the NJSP Forensic Laboratory, which tested positive for phencyclidine (PCP). Colon-Walsh was charged with 1st-degree PWID CDS, 2nd-degree Conspiracy to PWID CDS, and 3rddegree Possession of CDS. Brown was charged with 2nd-degree Conspiracy to PWID CDS. Additionally, 24 other individuals were charged with narcotics offenses, primarily 3rd-degree Conspiracy to PWID CDS and/or 4th-degree Possession of a CDS.
“Through the dedicated collaboration between our HIDTA Task Force and the Camden County Correctional Facility, a complex and potentially far-reaching criminal enterprise affecting inmates and our local Camden County community was dismantled,” Prosecutor MacAulay said. “The takedown of Operation Paper Trail disrupted a dangerous network responsible for distributing illicit substances and facilitating criminal activity. This operation not only enhanced public safety but also helped prevent further harm, protecting our communities and sparing countless individuals from the devastating effects of substance abuse.”
“This multifaceted investigation exemplifies the Liberty Mid-Atlantic HIDTA motto of strength through collaboration,” said HIDTA Director Brian Michael. “Dismantling this criminal organization enhances the integrity of the correctional facility by removing a host of dangerous drugs from circulation amongst inmates.”
The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office and Camden County Department of Corrections were assisted by the Camden HIDTA Task Force, New Jersey Department of Corrections – Special Investigations Division, United States Postal Inspection Service, and Cumberland County HIDTA Task Force in this investigation.
All individuals charged with crimes are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.