A south Alabama corrections officer is underneath arrest right after authorities say he was attempting to smuggle contraband – together with grownup flicks – to Mobile County jail inmates.
Cellular County Metro Jail correctional Officer Fredrick Johnson, 37, was arrested Tuesday, Sheriff Sam Cochran declared on Wednesday. He is charged with 21 counts of advertising prison contraband.
The discovery was produced although jail officials have been conducting a random bag check out as corrections officers reported for duty.
The sheriff reported Johnson was discovered in possession of mobile phone chargers, a camera, a digital camera view, and flash drives loaded with movies. Some of the motion pictures had been observed to be express grownup films.
A Mobile County Metro Jail officer is billed with smuggling contraband into the lockup to market to inmates. (Cell County Sheriff’s Business office)
Cochran stated sheriff’s investigators imagine Johnson was bringing contraband into the jail to offer to the inmates.
“This conduct will not be tolerated,’’ Cochran mentioned. “We are consistently investigating how contraband is brought into our jail and if we obtain it is a person of our staff members, then we will arrest him or her just like would everyone else.
Johnson began performing with the Cell County Sheriff’s Office environment as a corrections officer in 2019. He has a bond listening to established for Thursday.