A detention officer who was dismissed from his job last week at the Nash County jail faces charges of taking bribes from an inmate.
Jessie M. Baker, 25, was sent home from work after admitting he had been smuggling cigarettes to an inmate for $30-a-pack. The jail is a non-smoking facility.
Sheriff Dick Jenkins said authorities were tipped off after other inmates complained the unidentified prisoner was getting cigarettes. Through investigation, officials learned Baker had been accepting $30 from an outside source for each pack of cigarettes he delivered to the inmate.
Baker was charged with two counts of accepting bribes from a prisoner, Jenkins said. Baker, who had worked for six months as a detention officer, was released from jail on a $30,000 bond.
“Of course you don’t want that to happen,” Jenkins said. “You have a detention officer bringing (cigarettes) in, what else could be brought in? That’s why he’s no longer with us.”
Jessie M. Baker, 25, was sent home from work after admitting he had been smuggling cigarettes to an inmate for $30-a-pack. The jail is a non-smoking facility.
Sheriff Dick Jenkins said authorities were tipped off after other inmates complained the unidentified prisoner was getting cigarettes. Through investigation, officials learned Baker had been accepting $30 from an outside source for each pack of cigarettes he delivered to the inmate.
Baker was charged with two counts of accepting bribes from a prisoner, Jenkins said. Baker, who had worked for six months as a detention officer, was released from jail on a $30,000 bond.
“Of course you don’t want that to happen,” Jenkins said. “You have a detention officer bringing (cigarettes) in, what else could be brought in? That’s why he’s no longer with us.”
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