Jackson County corrections officer charged with smuggling drugs into jail

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A Jackson County Detention Center corrections officer answered a phone call and is now facing charges for what prosecutors said he did at the jail where he worked.

Jeremy Z. Mfundu faces one count of the delivery of a prohibited article into jail. He’s also charged with one count of attempt to distribute a controlled substance inside the jail.

A probable cause statement show investigators received information that inmates had sheets of LSD papers inside the facility. Two weeks later a confidential informant gave investigators a phone number. Investigators cross referenced the phone number through databases. According to the court document the phone number belonged to a personnel file of Jeremy Zola Mfundu…

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