Three Saline County Deputies Plead Guilty To Bringing Beer Into Jail
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Three former Saline County sheriff`s deputies
pleaded guilty to charges that alleged they brought beer into the
jail.
The former deputies allegedly stole the money from the inmates`
property accounts, drove to the county line to buy the beer, and
then drank the beer at the jail with an inmate who was awaiting
trial on a rape charge.
Charged with furnishing prohibited articles into a jail, a
felony, and with misdemeanor theft were 22-year-old John Hood,
21-year-old Christopher Daniel Carman and 32-year-old Todd McEuen.
Carman pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge. Each of the
men pleaded guilty to the remaining counts.
McEuen, who was a shift supervisor, was sentenced to 30 days in
jail, five years probation and a ten-thousand dollar fine. Carman
and Hood were each sentenced to ten days in jail, three years
probation and fines of five-thousand dollars.
The three appeared today before Circuit Judge Grisham Phillips.
The incident occurred on October eighth, 2003.
