Overview
- Correctional records show Rex Heuermann was caught trying to bring a package into Clinton Correctional Facility and was later found with drugs in his cell, leading to formal discipline.
- Prison officials moved Heuermann to an isolated unit and suspended some privileges after the contraband was discovered during a cell search.
- The records published by news outlets do not specify what was inside the package or the exact drug type found, though one report said a small soaked paper tested positive for a synthetic cannabinoid.
- Heuermann is serving multiple life sentences after pleading guilty earlier this year to the killings tied to the Gilgo Beach case, which investigators reopened before his arrest.
- Authorities say Heuermann is expected to cooperate with an FBI psychological study, and the prison discipline could affect his access to commissary and mail or complicate logistics for that study.