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A former sheriff’s deputy at a northern Virginia jail was sentenced Wednesday to 6 1/2 years in prison for smuggling drugs into the jail and for running a sex trafficking operation out of a Baltimore apartment. Robert T. Sanford Jr., 37, worked night shifts at the Fairfax County jail as a corrections officer between 2021 and 2023, according to court records. He admitted that he smuggled drugs and a phone into a jail inmate, including fentanyl and cocaine, for distribution among other inmates. He gave inside information to the inmate…