A former San Mateo County correctional officer was sentenced to six years and four months in state prison for two separate cases — sneaking cellphones and drugs into a jail in 2013 and a drunk driving hit-and-run in 2021, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
The man, 49-year-old George Ismael, pleaded no contest to felony conspiracy and contraband in jail for allowing an inmate to have two cellphones and drugs while he was in custody in 2013, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
In 2021, while out on bail and awaiting sentencing, Ismael was driving while intoxicated and struck a bicyclist, then fled the scene and lost control of his vehicle. A jury convicted him of felony drunk driving causing injury, felony hit-and-run and felony drunk driving in September 2024.
He received five years, four months for the hit-and-run and one year for the conspiracy to smuggle drugs and cellphone, Wagstaffe said.
“That’s a fall from grace — but self-inflicted,” Wagstaffe said.
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