“Few things threaten our society more than public servants who betray their oath for personal gain” - Special Agent in Charge Gordon B. Johnson of the FBI's Baltimore Division
In society a select group of people is tasked with serving and protecting the public. Throughout history an ever-fluctuating percentage of this group has chosen to get one over on the people instead. They take bribes from powerful figures in business or crime, defraud citizens or decide to become criminals themselves under the protection their position affords them.
The year has just begun and already two men who swore to uphold and protect the law find themselves in a cell for their crimes. 49-year-old Corrections Officer Paul Hursey received a 30-month prison sentence this week after he had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.
Hursey worked at the J.T. Vaughn Correctional Center (“JTVCC”) from 2013 through 2015, but instead of doing his job, he decided to get in on the action. He smuggled drugs, including heroin, and 30 cell phones to eleven different inmates in return for money. He did so knowing those inmates were using the smuggled cell phones to orchestrate their own smuggling routes for drugs and more phones into JTVCC. (more...)
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