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It never ends. More jail guards with contraband issues, another cop with a serious pill problem. Let's get to it:
In Kerrville, Texas, a Kerr County jail guard was arrested Sunday on charges he smuggled drugs and other contraband into the jail. Carl Birdwell, 22, went down after an investigation that began in December when administrators noticed "suspicious activity" in and outside of the jail. He was one of 11 people indicted in the contraband scheme. He allegedly smuggled alcohol, tobacco, pills, a cell phone, and more to inmates. He is charged with organized crime offenses.
In Knoxville, Tennessee, a former Newport Police detective was sentenced Monday to 7 ½ years in federal prison for peddling pain pills. James Finley Holt, 59, went down after a snitch agreed to help federal law enforcement, telling the feds he had sold him stolen items, which Holt then sold at a convenience store he owned. Further investigation revealed that Holt was buying and selling hydrocodone and Xanax, sometimes in his Newport police cruiser. When agents executed search warrants, they found cocaine, pills, and a bottle of testosterone in his locker, nine different prescription pill bottles, loose pills, and a grinder in a safe under his desk, more pills and pill bottles in his cruiser, and a sawed off shotgun at his home. He was convicted of federal drug distribution charges.
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prison guards
Most prison guards are just working poor trying to make a buck out of addiction.The cons who turn on them are just addicts trying to get over.I've been there and seen it work and it's always the same.One con gets angry for being left out and turns evidence over to get his.It's always jealousy and just plain creepiness.There's nothing worse than a jailhouse rat.Even in prison there's a code.The really sick thing is the way society always uses these rats as role models of superior behaviour.They're just burnouts and outcasts.
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