Two detention officers at the Oklahoma County jail have been fired after being accused of smuggling contraband in to inmates.
The officers were arrested Wednesday, the jail said. Both live in Oklahoma City.
“These two former employees betrayed the trust placed in them … and undermine the safety and security of our residents and staff,” Brandi Garner, the CEO of the Oklahoma County Detention Center, said in a news release Thursday. “We take our duty to uphold the integrity of this facility very seriously.”
The arrests came from a joint operation involving jail trust investigators, the Oklahoma County district attorney’s office, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, according to the news release.
One jailer is accused of smuggling marijuana and tobacco into inmate Blake Hill, a trust investigator told a judge in an affidavit for his arrest. The jailer was hired on July 31, 2023.
Hill had the detention officer’s personal phone number on slips of paper, according to the affidavit. Hill, 21, is charged with first-degree murder.