NYC worker honored for Black History Month pleads guilty to promotion of prison contraband
Ulster County DA: Corrections officers discovered 55 methamphetamine pills and a ceramic razor concealed "within [Ferguson's] body cavity."
Updated: 5:15 PM EST MAR. 18, 2025
Kingston, NY – 33-year-old Tantaniea Ferguson, a woman previously recognized by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene during Black History Month, pleaded guilty last week to charges related to promoting prison contraband.
According to court records and local reports, Ferguson, then 31, was visiting a male inmate at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in 2023 when a drug-sniffing K-9 alerted authorities to potential contraband.
Corrections officers subsequently discovered 55 methamphetamine pills and a ceramic razor concealed "within her body cavity," as reported by the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office.
Ferguson was subsequently arrested and originally charged with 5th degree possession of a controlled substance and two counts of first-degree promotion of contraband, all class D felonies.
Since then, the court has accepted Ferguson’s guilty plea to just one of the contraband charges and she is scheduled to be sentenced in May.
Prior to sentencing, it seems that Ferguson will remain out of custody.
According to Tantaniea Ferguson’s LinkedIn page, she is currently employed in the public sector as a lead specialist. Ferguson writes that she has been in that role at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DoHMH) since 2019.
For her work as a lead specialist, the NYC DoHMH honored Ferguson in February 2022 during Black history month, citing her work with children at risk of lead exposure complications.
Using Ferguson’s birth year shown in court filings, GVO.News was able to locate a Facebook profile that was once named “Tantaniea Ferguson” but has since been switched to a nickname or alias.
The very same profile also indicated a New Jersey residence, which matched news reports of Ferguson’s recent guilty plea.
Ferguson’s Facebook profile also featured a previous profile picture that was utilized on LinkedIn, confirming both profiles as authentic.
Ferguson appears to view politics through an antiracist, anti-White lens with some ideations of violence. In November of 2016, Ferguson called then president-elect Donald Trump a “racist” while daring White people to “disrespect” her:
“Our new President is racist & most of America is racist SMH... Let a white person disrespect me now 👊👊 on sight!”
Tantaniea Ferguson on November 9, 2016. Source: Facebook
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