Knoxville News-Sentinel
CLINTON, Tenn. — A probationary corrections officer with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office lost her job Tuesday when she was arrested after authorities said she was bringing narcotics into the jail for an inmate.
Kaitlin Paige Hardin, 21, of Lenoir City was fired and charged with manufacture/ delivery/sale/ possession of a controlled substance and introduction of drugs into a penal institution, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office.
Investigator Danny Bowie with the Anderson County Detention Facility received information that Hardin was bringing narcotics to an inmate, the release said. Bowie reported that he and investigators with the Special Operations Unit conducted a sting operation, offering Hardin prescription narcotics that were to be brought to the inmate.
Bowie reported that a subsequent investigation revealed Hardin also brought narcotics to an inmate in the detention facility on an earlier date.
Authorities said Hardin had been a probationary corrections officer since November.
Hardin was being held in jail without bond pending arraignment, the Sheriff’s Office said.
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