RICHMOND—According to a February 13 news release, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) Office of Law Enforcement Services (OLES) placed an inmate’s family member under arrest after she admitted to attempting to smuggle drugs into an inmate graduation at Haynesville Correctional Center.
Kristyn Nicole Mazzariello of Newport News has been charged with manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance prohibited, a felony, in Richmond County General District Court.
On November 22, 2024, Mazzariello attempted to visit Haynesville for a scheduled inmate graduation. Facility investigators and OLES special agents stopped and spoke to Mazzariello and later asked her to submit to a drug and contraband scan from a VADOC K-9. The K-9 alerted….
