The Norfolk County Sheriff’s workplace has charged one in all their very own with being the bagman in an alleged conspiracy to convey greater than 230 stripes of suboxone, a narcotic, into the jail.
Jean Guirand, 40, of Saugus, was employed as a correctional officer in April and was nonetheless below probation when the alleged conspiracy occurred. The sheriff’s division acquired a tip on Aug. 1 that he was concerned in a drug conspiracy and so senior employees approached him that day.
Norfolk Sheriff Patrick McDermott mentioned in a press convention Thursday morning that his workplace “acted immediately after receiving the intelligence that we gathered.
“That officer, Jean Guirand, of Saugus, Massachusetts, was questioned by our investigative team on Aug. 1 before the start of his shift, and he admitted to providing the narcotics to the offenders three days earlier. Guirand was immediately placed on leave, escorted off the property, and terminated the next day,” McDermott mentioned.
Following an investigation, the division filed for felony costs towards Guirand, detainees Dante Clark, 25, of Dorchester, and Cornel Bell, 29, of Quincy, in addition to two girls who’re alleged to have conspired to get the medication from exterior and hand them off to Guirand: Avelina Faustin, 20, of Brockton, and Amaya Rogers, 27, of Boston.
The felony complaints filed in Dedham District Courtroom on Aug. 23 search costs of conspiracy, delivering medication to a correctional facility and possession of a category B substance with intent to distribute.
McDermott mentioned that after one failed try with one of many girls, the opposite met up with Guirand whereas he was on break and handed the medication over in a Wendy’s bag. Guirand then reentered the jail and, in what McDermott referred to as a “breach of protocol,” solely his backpack or facet bag was scanned in safety and the Wendy’s bag was not screened.
Investigators then searched the cells of the 2 detainees, Clark and Bell, and in Bell’s cell allegedly discovered the medication inside a plastic baggie that was itself hidden in jars of pomade, or hair gel.
“The drugs that were involved are Suboxone, which is a major contraband issue at correctional facilities across the United States and one of the main drugs used to treat opioid addiction,” McDermott mentioned.
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