JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville Sheriff's Office corrections officer has been charged with slipping contraband to an inmate in the Duval County jail.
Undersheriff Pat Ivey said a female friend of a jail inmate brought cigarettes and sexually explicit magazines to corrections officer Brandon Scott Maynard, who smuggled them into the jail and gave them to the inmate in exchange for payment.
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Maynard, 42, is charged with one count of introducing contraband into a jail and one count of conspiracy to introduce contraband into a jail, Ivey said.
"We should not develop those types of relationships," Ivey said. "Case in point, right here what we're dealing with. It makes the officer, if they don't have a strong enough personality, become vulnerable for things of this nature."
Maynard, a three-year JSO employee, has elected to go on leave without pay during the investigation, Ivey said.
Ivey said police would not be releasing the name of the inmate involved in the case, but said the inmate was in custody for "significant felony charges." The inmate has not been charged in this incident, Ivey said.
Ivey said the investigation began in August when police received an unsolicited tip from an inmate.
"I'm kind of sad to say that we discovered the allegations were true," Ivey said.
Police said Maynard, who had no previous incidents on his record with JSO, smuggled the items in on several occasions.
This arrest is the 11th of a JSO employee this year. There were six such arrests in 2014, Ivey said. Previous arrests in 2015 include:
- Erica McRae -- officer who chose leave without pay in October, accused of beating her son with a hanger until it broke. Read more
- Jacki Carnevale -- former communications center employee, arrested on drug-related charges in late September after police say she sold OxyContin during a sting. Read more
- Officer Betty Pearson -- arrested in September, accused of trying to help her son elude arrest for cocaine trafficking.
- Clarence Thomas Jr. -- former corrections officer, arrested in July and accused of having sex with a 17-year-old student. He was a former assistant coach at Westside High School. Read more
- Officer Scott Bridges -- arrested in June on charges of distribution of a controlled substance and battery. A woman says he brought her several hydrocodone pills, then started making sexual advances. He was an 11-year veteran.
- Officer Michael Rounsville -- arrested in May, indicted by the feds for accessing NCIC to run a background check on an undercover agent who was working to bust a crime ring that was into drugs, fraud and money laundering.
- Officer Debra Young -- arrested in March, charged with three counts of petty theft and one count of official misconduct for activity while she was working private security for three apartment complexes while off duty. JSO says she billed for hours that she did not work, a total of $360.
- Corrections Officer Wendle Norman -- arrested on three felony charges of misappropriation of food stamp funds, grand theft and schemes to defraud.