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| Former Utah Officer Pleads Guilty to Drugs Charges |
| By KSL |
| Published: 05/30/2003 |
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A former corrections officer at the Utah State Prison pleaded guilty today to dealing drugs inside to inmates. Corrections officials say they had suspected him for sometime, set up a sting operation, and caught him. Oddesser Thompson plead guilty May 22 to planning to sell marijuana and tobacco in the prison. The Department of Corrections says a source inside the prison told them about Oddesser, and what he was doing. An undercover investigation came to a head in late January. Then they caught him red handed. Coincidentally, this plea comes at a time when the state prison boasts a lower than the national average percentage when it comes to drugs in prison. Still 80 percent of Utah State inmates have a drug problem or have had a problem at one time, and despite corrections best efforts drugs do make it inside in a variety of creative ways. That's why the recent officer's betrayal is really hard for corrections to swallow. 'This is such a rare event that we have an officer involved in this type of activity,' said Scott Carver, Director of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. 'It is very detrimental to out morale around here it of course it sheds a bad light on many officers who are doing an outstanding job.' Thompson faces up to five years in prison and will be sentenced in mid July. The Department feels this is an isolated incident and doesn't plan to do anything differently as far as their officers go. |
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