MIAMI (BNO NEWS) – A Federal Corrections Officer on Thursday was charged with accepting bribes and attempting to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute.

Octavius Allen, a federal corrections officer at the Federal Detention Center (“FDC”) in Miami, Florida was charged with knowingly attempting to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. The complaint also charges that from December 2009 and continuing through January 2010, Allen, a public official, did corruptly demand, seek, receive, accept, and agree to receive and accept a thing of value in return for being induced to do an act in violation of his official duty.

According to the criminal complaint, Allen smuggled six plastic bottles filled with Remy Martin VS liquor into FDC and delivered them to two different inmates. These inmates, the complaint alleges, arranged for their family members to met with the defendant at a Sears parking lot in Miami and pay him approximately $600 per bottle.

Additionally, the complaint further alleges that an uncover agent offered Allen $3,000 if he would agree to smuggle two packages of cocaine into the prison, Allen accepted the next day.

Allen, after his arrest, provided a full confession which he memorialized in a signed statement.

If convicted, Allen faces a maximum penalty of up to twenty years in prison on the drug charges and up to fifteen years on the bribery charges.