A Cuyahoga County grand jury this week indicted Keonte Calhoun, 31, on charges of drug trafficking, drug possession and illegal conveyance, all felonies.
Smuggling is a long-running issue within the Cuyahoga County Jail, and Keonte Calhoun is the latest corrections officer to be charged with sneaking drugs or contraband to inmates.CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A fired Cuyahoga County Jail guard has been charged with smuggling drugs to an inmate when he worked at the lock-up last year.
Calhoun, of Brook Park, is also charged separately with domestic violence, strangulation and aggravated menacing in a December incident in Berea. A woman told police Calhoun squeezed her neck until she couldn’t breathe and pulled a gun and told her she didn’t deserve to live, according to court records.
Investigators discovered that Pucci arranged a meeting between Calhoun and Carnegie, who was Pucci’s friend, prosecutors said. Carnegie gave synthetic marijuana and money to Calhoun to bring to Pucci, prosecutors said.
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