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Police lights. A correctional officer who worked at the Charlotte Correctional Institution’s offsite work camp in Fort Myers was arrested on Wednesday for agreeing to smuggle drugs into his workplace. According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, Leslie Spencer, 48, will be charged with attempted possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance. If convicted Spencer could face a maximum penalty of 20 years. The news release states Spencer agreed to smuggle three ounces of methamphetamine, three ounces of MDMA, a small amount of synthetic marijuana and two cell phones in exchange for $400. On Wednesday, Spencer met with an undercover FBI employee in the parking lot of a store on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Fort Myers and was given sham drugs and the money to smuggle into the facility. He was then arrested.