Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Deputy Jailers Charged With Trafficking Contraband

{Kentucky}...The U.S. Attorney's office in Louisville said Wednesday that 35 year old Shawn Perkins and 24 year old Michael Cook were charged after a four-month investigation at the Marion County Detention Center in Lebanon, which holds federal inmates. Prosecutors say a sweep of the jail Wednesday morning turned up cell phones, narcotics, tobacco and other contraband in and around cell blocks. Perkins also faces a drug trafficking charge. Marion County Jailer J. Barry Brady says Perkins, a 12-year veteran at the jail, and Cook, who worked there for about a year, were fired.