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It's all guards gone bad this week. Let's get to it:
In Indianapolis, Indiana, a Marion County Jail guard was arrested last Thursday after a search by coworkers turned up drugs on her person. Guard Njell Holmes, 25, faces preliminary charges of drug dealing and drug trafficking, both of which are level four felonies with maximum sentences of 12 years. She is now a former guard.
In Montgomery, Alabama, a state prison guard was arrested last Saturday after confessing to smuggling in methamphetamine and possibly other drugs for an inmate. Guard Charlie Townsend, 28, was to receive $1,500 for bringing 88 grams of meth. He is suspected of also brining fentanyl, marijuana, and Xanax into the prison. He is charged with trafficking methamphetamine, use of position for personal gain and promoting prison contraband.
In Lisbon, Ohio, a former Columbiana County jail guard was sentenced last Friday to three years' probation and 90 days of house arrest for smuggling crack cocaine, methamphetamine and suboxone into the jail. Keith McCoy, 53, was caught red-handed bringing the dope into the lock-up. He pleaded guilty in March to illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a specified government facility, possession of fentanyl-related compound and two counts aggravated possession of drugs and misdemeanor possession of drugs.
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