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CO arrested for smuggling iPhones

Allegedly collected $1,000 bribe

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BEDFORD Heights, Ohio — The Fox8 News I-team has learned a part-time guard at the Bedford Heights jail is in serious trouble after allegedly smuggling an iPhone to a prisoner in exchange for a $1,000 bribe.

A corrections officer, William Reid, 51, of Euclid was arrested after Bedford Heights authorities say he confessed to the crime.

“We had information that contraband was being brought into the facility,” Assistant Chief David Leonardi told I-team Reporter Lorrie Taylor.

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