By Rummana Hussain
Chicago Sun Times
CHICAGO — A Cook County Jail correctional officer has been charged with bringing marijuana, a cell phone and several DVDs into the jail.
Dwayne Jones, 25, had 10 grams of suspected marijuana, a cell phone and charger, earphones and several DVDs, including episodes of last year’s Discovery Channel series “Cook County Jail,” when authorities stopped him Monday, according to sheriff’s spokesman Steve Patterson.
Also in Jones’ bag was the ongoing MSNBC series “The Squeeze,” which focuses on the roles of the sheriff’s gang intelligence officers inside and outside the jail, Patterson said.
Jones, of the 10300 block of Walden Parkway, denied the drugs were his.
Officers are not allowed to have electronics while at the jail. Authorities believe Jones planned to watch the DVDs on a computer used to track inmate information, Patterson said.
Jones was hired in August and had been working the midnight shift in Division 4, a minimum-security, gang-free division at the jail, Patterson said. Because he was on probationary status at the time of his arrest, he was fired.
Jones is charged with two counts of possession of contraband in a penal institution and one count of officer misconduct. He was released on $10,000 bail.
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