PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A federal inmate who coordinated a scheme to smuggle synthetic cannabinoids into the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island has been sentenced in federal court in Providence to 24 more months in prison, the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Rhode Island said Monday.

Randy Diaz-Pizarro, 34, was sentenced Saturday by U.S. District Judge Melissa R. DuBose. The new term is to be served after the 120-month sentence he is already serving following a conviction in federal court in Massachusetts, prosecutors said.

According to court documents, Diaz-Pizarro worked with several others, including another inmate, an employee of the detention facility and a person outside the facility, to smuggle drug-soaked paper into the prison. Prosecutors said he directed and coordinated the payments and communications behind the scheme, and that the drugs were meant both for personal use and for distribution among inmates.

At sentencing, the judge considered Diaz-Pizarro's criminal history and the fact that he committed the offense while in federal custody on unrelated charges, prosecutors said.

The FBI and the Wyatt facility's professional standards unit investigated the case.

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