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An anime-loving Rikers Island correction officer testified Thursday that he smuggled drug-soaked issues of the hyper-popular manga “Demon Slayer” into the jail at the behest of a Brooklyn gang leader. Darius Murphy told a jury in Brooklyn Federal Court how he got the comics from one of accused Bully Gang leader Moeleek Harrell’s accomplices, then slipped one issue into a janitor’s closet so ...

Karin Robinson, 29, was accused of receiving the ill-gotten cash via an app between February and June 2019 and then smuggling contraband weed into the George R. Vierno Center, the feds said.

Andrew Walker, an investigator with the Department of Correction, described crooked correction officers as one of the primary ways inmates get drugs into Rikers.

Guard-turned-federal cooperator Patrick Legerme on Monday described how he struck a deal with inmate James Albert, who allegedly sold drugs to hundreds of his fellow inmates.