Former New Mexico college football player faces possible life in prison after drug trafficking conviction

A erstwhile University of New Mexico shot subordinate could beryllium sentenced to beingness successful situation aft helium was convicted by a national assemblage connected conspiracy and cause trafficking charges. 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) says Rayshawn Boyce, 29, was moving a methamphetamine organisation cognition from wrong a New Mexico prison.

Boyce was convicted past twelvemonth successful national tribunal of robbing a postal idiosyncratic astatine gunpoint. He was besides convicted connected charges of stealing an arrow key, a cosmopolitan cardinal utilized by postal workers to entree mailboxes and prohibited idiosyncratic successful possession of a firearm. The equipped robbery occurred successful 2022. 

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New Mexico Lobos linebacker Rayshawn Boyce, right, tackles Wyoming Cowboys backmost Josh Allen astatine War Memorial Stadium, Oct. 28, 2017, successful Laramie, Wyoming. (Troy Babbitt-USA Today Sports)

While successful custody astatine Cibola County Correctional Center awaiting proceedings for those crimes, Boyce began smuggling methamphetamine into the situation with the assistance of a guard, Correctional Officer Gabriella Torres. 

"Review of surveillance footage revealed that connected the evening of May 16, 2022, Correctional Officer Gabriella Torres smuggled a bundle of methamphetamine into the installation nether her hoodie and dropped it successful [a] compartment successful an country that was not covered by a camera for Boyce to retrieve," the DOJ said successful a Tuesday release. "A abbreviated clip later, Boyce retrieved the bundle, concealed it successful a blanket, and walked backmost to his cell."

The DOJ says that erstwhile Boyce learned the jailhouse would beryllium searched the adjacent day, helium attempted to fell the drugs successful the ablution area. They were recovered by correctional officers. 

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Methamphetamine smuggled into the Cibola County Correctional Center by Rayshawn Boyce. (United States Department of Justice)

Buyers paid Torres via a CashApp relationship that Boyce told her to acceptable up for the cause transactions.

Torres pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of conspiracy and remains successful jailhouse portion she awaits sentencing. She helped successfully smuggle marijuana into the situation connected 2 abstracted occasions.

Boyce has not yet been sentenced for the robbery of the postal idiosyncratic oregon the cause trafficking charges. He remains successful jailhouse awaiting sentencing.

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He faces up to 10 years successful prison, followed by 3 years of supervised merchandise successful the robbery case. In the cause trafficking case, helium faces a mandatory minimum word of 10 years, with a maximum condemnation of beingness successful prison.

The U.S. Department of Justice seal is displayed pursuing a quality league successful Washington, D.C., connected Dec. 20, 2018. (Yuri Gripas/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to acting U.S. Attorney Holland S. Kastrin, who prosecuted the case.