Three jail inmates and another man are facing charges after sheriff's deputies uncovered a plot to smuggle guns into the Hillsborough County Jail and escape, officials said.
Ernesto Ibarra, 21, of Wimauma was arrested Wednesday morning as he attempted to buy four guns from an undercover Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy who had been tipped to the plan, officials said.
Ibarra was to pass the weapons to a Falkenburg Road Jail inmate who worked outside at the facility, deputies said. The inmate was to smuggle them inside to Ibarra's brother and two other men, deputies said.
Ibarra's brother, Edi Ibarra, 25, is jailed awaiting trial on charges he killed his girlfriend three years ago.
The other two inmates are Walter Ruiz, 46, and Jason Porter, 23. All are held without bail on charges of conspiring to commit an escape from a detention facility and to introduce contraband into a detention facility.
