Thursday, August 05, 2010
Corrections Officer Charged
WEST VIRGINIA....
Twenty-two year old Nathaniel Johnson of Salt Rock, a former corrections officer at the Western Regional Jail, was released on bond Thursday morning after being charged with conspiracy and bringing a weapon on jail grounds. West Virginia State Police arrested him on Tuesday after undercover investigators set up a meeting where they say he took $300 and agreed to buy tobacco and Oxycontin pills, and then deliver the pills to an inmate. Troopers say, after he got out of his vehicle at the jail later, they found a .22 rifle inside his vehicle. Johnson has resigned his position as a corrections officer, and his next court hearing is scheduled for August 13th. If convicted, he faces up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine.
Twenty-two year old Nathaniel Johnson of Salt Rock, a former corrections officer at the Western Regional Jail, was released on bond Thursday morning after being charged with conspiracy and bringing a weapon on jail grounds. West Virginia State Police arrested him on Tuesday after undercover investigators set up a meeting where they say he took $300 and agreed to buy tobacco and Oxycontin pills, and then deliver the pills to an inmate. Troopers say, after he got out of his vehicle at the jail later, they found a .22 rifle inside his vehicle. Johnson has resigned his position as a corrections officer, and his next court hearing is scheduled for August 13th. If convicted, he faces up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine.
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