Former jail guard gets 2 years for selling phones to inmates
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Mitchell County man has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for selling cell phones to inmates while working as a correctional officer.
U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia Michael Moore says 33-year-old Curtis Drakes sold the phones to inmates at Mize Street Detention Facility in Pelham, Georgia for about a month in 2013. Cell phones aren't permitted at the jail, which is about 35 miles south of Albany.
Drakes pleaded guilty in February and was sentenced earlier this week.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Moore says Drakes put his fellow guards and potential witnesses in jeopardy.
The U.S. Marshal Service and the Pelham Police Department participated in the investigation.