A Denver Sheriff’s Department deputy was arrested Wednesday for allegedly selling a vape pen to a detention center inmate.

Aniel Martinez, 33, faces charges of official misconduct and introducing contraband after he sold a purple vape pen to an inmate in the department’s Downtown Detention Center for $60 on Jan. 2, according to court documents provided by the Denver Police Department.

At 10:35 p.m. on that day, Martinez offered to “do a round” in the pod, and a fellow deputy saw him hand an item in his pocket to an inmate, according to the documents. After Martinez finished the round, the other deputy reported the interaction to his supervisor, who then reviewed surveillance video that captured the incident.

Deputies searched the inmate, whose name is redacted in the documents, and found a black vape pen in the crotch of his long underwear, according to the documents.

They also found another purple vape pen in his sock that later tested positive for marijuana, but the inmate said that pen had come from another inmate who had been brought into the jail the week prior.

In his statement to internal affairs officers, the inmate said he saw the vape on Martinez’s desk that day and asked if he could have it, to which the deputy said no, according to the documents. After talking more about it, Martinez allegedly told the inmate that it would cost $60.

“I could make a killing selling vapes,” Martinez said to the inmate, according to the documents.

The inmate then made a deal with the deputy to pay him the money via a CashApp transfer, which the inmate initiated by calling someone outside the detention center, according to the documents.

Surveillance footage reviewed by investigators shows the pair interacting at Martinez’s desk multiple times throughout the day, with Martinez showing the inmate something on his cell phone and later handing him a piece of paper, according to the documents. The inmate also makes calls on the phones multiple times that day; recordings of those calls later revealed he had called a woman to arrange a CashApp transfer.

Martinez joined the department in 2024, a Denver Sheriff’s Department spokesperson said in a Thursday statement. He was placed on investigatory leave on Jan. 3, a day after the alleged incident took place.

The Office of the Independent Monitor has been notified about the incident and the Public Integrity Division is investigating it.