Jailer loses job over drug smuggling
Authorities believe she was going to smuggle drugs into the jail for a $20 payoff. It cost her a $19,000 job.
Sheriff Lloyd Emmons said Danielle Staggs, 18, of Woodbury, was dismissed from her job as a jailer at DeKalb County Jail and has been charged with possession of a Schedule III drug, conspiracy to introduce contraband into the jail, and official misconduct.
Johnny DeVault and Chris Gammons, along with DeVault’s girlfriend, Kim Curtis, have been charged with conspiracy to introduce contraband into the jail.
Chief deputy Milton Bowling said the case remains under investigation and he expects more defendants may be indicted later by the DeKalb County grand jury.
Emmons and Bowling said authorities uncovered an alleged smuggling scheme in which DeVault would have fellow inmate Gammons make a phone call to a relative. The relative would then create a three-way or conference call with Curtis. DeVault would then get on the telephone and order cigarettes and drugs. Curtis, it is believed, would then deliver the contraband to Staggs who would sneak the items into the jail cells when she came to work.
While Staggs, a jailer since this February, has been charged in only one case to date, Bowling said, “We have reason to believe this is not the first package she delivered.”
Staggs was arrested last week when officials obtained information Staggs was paid $20 to deliver a package of tobacco that contained two percocet pills to the inmate when she came to work Tuesday morning. Capt. Mark Collins was waiting and soon found the tobacco and pills inside her vehicle. She was subsequently charged and dismissed from her jailer’s job, followed by charges filed against the two inmates.
Percocet is a narcotic analgesic used to treat moderate to moderately severe pain.