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According to the Associated
Press a former state
prison guard from Mule Creek State Prison has plead guilty to smuggling
methamphetamine into MCSP and delivering it to inmates, Sacramento
County prosecutors said. John Charles Whittle, 47, a 22-year veteran of the California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation, admitted taking methamphetamine to an inmate at
Mule Creek State Prison. Internal affairs investigators said they
intercepted a package mailed to Whittle’s home in the Sacramento suburb of
Citrus Heights on Aug. 17.
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They tested it for drugs and raided his home after
Whittle accepted delivery. Agents found that Whittle had cut open a stuffed
teddy bear that was in the package, removed nearly 10 grams of methamphetamine
and hidden it in the stab-resistant vest issued to prison guards. He intended
to smuggle the package into the prison, the district attorney’s office said in
a statement. Whittle admitted that associates of the inmates outside the prison paid him $5,150 for
smuggling the drugs, prosecutors said. He forfeited the money as part of a plea
deal and faces up to two years in prison when he is sentenced April 19.
Whittle has since resigned from the department.