NEW ROADS, La. (AP) - Two guards at the Pointe Coupee Parish Detention Center have been fired and three others resigned after allegations surfaced about inappropriate dealings with inmates.
Sheriff Bud Torres tells The Advocate (https://bit.ly/1X6jsJH) the employees are accused of smuggling drugs and cellphones into the facility for inmates.
Torres says Darnell VanBuren, one of the guards fired, faces a charge of malfeasance for improper conduct with a female inmate.
Torres said an investigation found no evidence that VanBuren and the inmate had any physical contact with one another.
Capt. Steve Juge, the jail’s warden, said a female guard was also fired because of a friendship she maintained with an inmate.
Torres did not release the names of the other guards involved in the investigation and no other arrests have been made.
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Information from: The Advocate, https://theadvocate.com
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