SC correctional officer charged with bringing drugs to inmates, Midlands sheriff says
A South Carolina correctional officer has been charged with delivering contraband to inmates, Orangeburg Sheriff Leroy Ravenell announced Friday.
“We were asked by the detention center director to investigate the possibility that contraband was being brought in,” Ravenell said in a news release.
Investigators with the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office were notified of narcotics making their way to the Orangeburg-Calhoun Detention Center on Monday. The sheriff’s office did not say what type of drugs were being delivered.
On Thursday, 26-year-old Tatyana Izlar of Denmark, S.C., was charged with one count of furnishing prisoners alcoholic beverages or narcotic drugs and one count of furnishing or possessing contraband in county or municipal jail. She eventually admitted to being paid to make a delivery, the sheriff’s office said.
Investigators also seized a “quantity” of marijuana and a cell phone from Izlar’s car.
Izlar could face between one to 10 years in prison if convicted, according to South Carolina law.
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