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2 ex-Leavenworth prison guards plead guilty to smuggling

By Associated Press

02/01/2022

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Two former correctional officers at the Leavenworth Detention Center have pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle drugs and other contraband into the privately run federal prison.

The Kansas City Star reports that 28-year-old Willie Golden, of Overland Park, and 36-year-old Janna Grier, of Horton, entered the pleas last week.

Prosecutors said prisoners used an online app to pay bribes to corrections officers to smuggle in tobacco, marijuana and cell phones to prisoners from April through November 2020.

During his time as a correctional officer, Golden allegedly received $7,370 for smuggling contraband, according to court documents.

In a plea agreement, Grier admitted to smuggling tobacco and what she later learned was synthetic cannabinoids into the detention center.

Golden is scheduled to be sentenced on May 17 and Grier on April 28. Both face up to five years in prison.

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