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| Prison Contract Employee caught in a drug sting |
| By CHRISTOPHER BOBBY, Tribune Chronicle , tribtoday.com |
| Published: 04/27/2011 |
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WARREN - A 61-year-old therapist who worked at Trumbull Correctional Institution will be spending the next year in prison after being caught in a drug sting. Christopher Ellis of Idlewood Drive, Youngstown, was sentenced to one year in prison Tuesday by Common Pleas Judge John M. Stuard, who wished the defendant ''good luck'' over the next year and beyond. Ellis, a contract employee at the local prison, had agreed with an inmate to secure the cocaine to earn $1,000, according to assistant county prosecutor Chris Becker. The inmate then directed Ellis to a "crack cocaine dealer," who turned out to be an undercover Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper. Moments after the agent turned over the cocaine to Ellis at the Tally Ho Motel on Belmont Avenue in Liberty, police descended on Ellis. The incident occurred May 8, 2008. On Tuesday, Ellis pleaded guilty to illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto grounds of a detention facility, a third-degree felony, and possession of cocaine, a first-degree felony that was reduced to a third-degree felony in return for Ellis' plea. He declined a pre-sentence investigation and background check. The possession charge carried a mandatory prison sentence. Ellis, a former athlete at Struthers High School and Youngstown State, was recorded on video during and after his arrest. He and his attorney Al Matavich were unsuccessful in getting the video evidence thrown out at an earlier suppression hearing. Read More. |
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