School principal Sadie Silver caught smuggling heroin into maximum-security prison

A New York City elementary school principal has been arrested on charges of trying to smuggle drugs into a maximum-security prison.

Principal Sadie Silver and a man she was with were arrested Friday after state police said they carried heroin and prescription drugs into the Coxsackie Correctional Facility.

Police say that Silver, 40, and Michael Acosta, 34, had a 10-year-old child with them.

Silver and Acosta face felony charges of promoting prison contraband and criminal possession of a controlled substance as well as a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child.

Police officer Patrick Regan said Silver and Acosta had arrived for a previously arranged visit with an inmate at the prison for men in Greene County, where they intended to pass off the heroin and a prescription drug called Suboxone.

He said: 'Silver and Acosta were found to possess a quantity of heroin and Suboxone, which they were attempting to deliver to the inmate.'

The pair were released on bail but could face prison if convicted.

City education officials removed Silver from her job after hearing of her arrest.

Before her arrest, Silver was known as a respected school leader who overcame her own troubled childhood to serve the children in the community where she grew up.

She was a teen mother who dropped out of high school, but rose above those challenges to ea two master’s degrees.