Tennessee jailer behind bars, faces bribery charge
TULLAHOMA, Tenn. (AP) – A former corrections officer from southern Tennessee is set for arraignment next month on charges that he took money from an inmate to allow contraband into a jail.
The Tullahoma News reported (http://bit.ly/1wDfo7M ) that 26-year-old James M. Mayes of Manchester is scheduled to appear in Coffee County General Sessions Court on Nov. 17. Mayes is charged with bribery of a public servant, extortion and official misconduct.
Sheriff’s Investigative Sgt. Danny Ferrell says Mayes took $100 from and inmate to allow a quarter pound of tobacco into the tobacco-free jail.
Ferrell alleges that the inmate was told that for another $150 he could bring anything he wanted into the jail.
Mayes is being housed in the Franklin County Jail under a $150,000 bond.
