Former Cumberland County Detention Officer arrested for providing a cell phone to a detainee, sheriff says - CBS17.com

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office arrested a erstwhile detention serviceman connected Wednesday.

The sheriff’s bureau began an probe into Monique Rossetta Smith, 29, aft a argumentation usurpation was reported successful October.

Monique Smith (Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office)

During the investigation, the sheriff’s bureau received accusation and recovered grounds that Smith provided astatine slightest 1 inmate with a compartment phone.

Smith was terminated connected Oct. 14.

On Wednesday, the sheriff’s bureau arrested Smith for providing a compartment telephone to a Cumberland County Detention Center detainee. The sheriff’s bureau said Smith was hired successful January arsenic a Detention Officer.

Smith received a $2,500 unsecured enslaved and volition look successful tribunal connected Thursday astatine 2:30 p.m. astatine the Cumberland County Detention Center.

Anyone with accusation regarding this probe should interaction MCIU Detective Lieutenant J. Woods astatine (910) 677-5511 or Fayetteville/Cumberland County CrimeStoppers at (910) 483-TIPS (8477).