A highly respected Brooklyn principal was busted for allegedly sneaking drugs into a state prison, officials said Tuesday.
PS 28 principal Sadie Silver, 40, was pinched at Coxsackie Correctional Facility last week along with boyfriend Michael Acosta, 34, according to state police.
Silver has been removed as principal of PS 28, a Department of Education rep said.
“Silver and Acosta were found to possess a quantity of heroin and suboxone, which they were attempting to deliver to an inmate,” state police Maj. Patrick Regan said in a statement.
The suspects were at Coxsackie to visit Silver’s son Alex Mercado, who is doing time on weapons charges at the prison, according to WCBS-TV.
They were both hit with the same charges — two counts of possession of drugs, one count of bringing contraband into a prison and endangering the welfare of a child by having a minor with them at the time of their arrest, state cops said.
The kid is Silver’s young daughter, Channel 2 reported.
Acosta was caught at the visitors screen room with two small balloons filled with drugs, according to the broadcast report.
While Silver did not have any drugs in her possession, investigators believe she was in on plans to smuggle in the narcotics, law enforcement sources said.
Silver has been widely credited with boosting test scores at PS 28 in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
She’s been working for city schools since September, 1996, according to department records.
Silver was appointed interim acting principal of PS 28 on Jan. 13, 2006 and then named to that job permanently on Nov. 7, 2006.
“She was reassigned away from the classroom,” in light of her arrest, a department rep said Tuesday.
Her annual base-pay salary was $129,920 as of last year, according city records.