A Southern California attorney found himself on the wrong side of the law after he was arrested on April 9 for allegedly smuggling drugs into a Los Angeles County jail.

Stephen Beecher, 61, was charged with five felony counts including conspiracy, bringing drugs into jail, transportation of a controlled substance and bringing a firearm into a jail, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was allegedly attempting to bring heroin into the jail while visiting his client, 20-year-old Jesus Antonio Duenas, who is in custody on an attempted murder case.

Along with Beecher's half-dozen charges, Duenas and his girlfriend, Jessica Paredes, 19, are each being charged with two counts of criminal conspiracy. They both are pleading not-guilty, according to Jane Robinson, a spokeswoman from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. If convicted, they will face nine years each in state prison, while Beecher will be looking at 11 years for his it.

Beecher, a resident of Sherman Oaks, was released on a bail bond the morning of April 11. He is scheduled to be arraigned on May 1 in Los Angeles, the Times reported.

The heroin was allegedly smuggled into the jail in the envelope of a greeting card. Paredes "ironed and flattened" 39.09 grams of heroin so it fit inside the greeting card envelope, and passed it to Beecher to be delivered to Duenas​, the article stated. Prosecutors alleged that Beecher attempted to bring the heroin to Duenas on December 28 at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic, California. He was also arrested that day, but was not charged until recently. The two packages of heroin he was carrying would have been worth over $30,000 had it made it into the jail.

The drugs were intended for Duenas along with a criminal enterprise within the Los Angeles County jail system known as "the Southside". According to prosecutors, this ring has control over drugs and other illegal activities within the jails.

This is not the first hiccup in Beecher's 25-year career, though it certainly is the most serious. The Cal State-Northridge graduate had his license to practice law suspended in 2010 due according to state bar records, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. The two month suspension was a result of improper handling of trust and business records.