ELKTON — A man who received a five-year prison term Friday for falling asleep behind the wheel on Interstate 95 near North East in September 2023 — causing a single-vehicle crash that killed his toddler son — is now facing a new criminal charge after Cecil County Detention Center corrections officers allegedly found a homemade knife in his jail-cell bed, according to court records.
Cecil County Sheriff’s Office investigators charged the suspect — Jonathan Bradford Miles II, 23, of Elizabeth, N.J. — with possession of contraband in a place of confinement on Monday — three days after he received a five-year prison term for negligent vehicular manslaughter in the crash that killed his son. Miles will serve his five-year term in a Maryland Department of Corrections prison and, at some point, he will be transferred from the county jail to a state prison.
The contraband charged filed against Miles relates to an incident on Oct. 27, when investigators searched Miles’ cell after they had “received intelligence that there was weapon on the Upper Red Tier reported to be ‘shank’,” according to the charging document, which indicates that a shank is a homemade knife…