Personnel records for the sergeant obtained by WECT indicate he started working at Tabor Correctional in December 2018 and had been with DPS since May 2014. The other officer on shift with Thompson had been at Tabor Correctional since June 2019. He resigned from his position on Monday. Only one faces criminal charges at this time, though the State Bureau of Investigation has opened a probe in the matter. The arrest can affect the image of all law enforcement personnel to the public, he said. Copyright 2021 WECT. I always was saying that at least when hes doing time like that I know where hes at and hes okay, but boy was I wrong, Pressley said. Dawe, whose group shares research to help correctional officers, said that prison leaders who operate without sufficient staff roll the dice with peoples lives.. The smuggling of drugs into prisons is a nationwide problem, not just a North Carolina problem. [57], In October 2019, a Corrections officer was accused of hitting two students with a car,[58] while another was accused of breaking into a house. Was this review helpful? Maddens arrest comes after the recent arrests of three Robeson County detention officers in April for charges of identity theft. Bullard also said the sergeant left work early that day after he was questioned and had not returned to work since. We absolutely and fully support prosecution of those responsible. He was arrested and charged with trafficking synthetic cannabinoids into the prison. At Bertie, Callahan was responding to a fire set inside a trash can on the evening of April 26 when an inmate beat her to death with the fire extinguisher shed brought to douse the flames, state officials say. Three correctional officers named in two separate incident reports filed by the Tabor City Police Department have resigned in the past week. . The Charlotte Observer. As soon as we plug a hole in one area, offenders find a work around. [40] The officer was arrested by the Tabor City police department. 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