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Ex-Ala. corrections officer sentenced to more than 6 years for smuggling meth into prison

Three bags of “crystal like substance” were discovered in the Staton Correctional Facility CO’s vehicle after an officer and K-9 conducted a sniff search in the facility’s parking lot

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Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County, Alabama. (Mike Cason/mcason@al.com)

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By Carol Robinson
al.com

ELMORE, Ala. — A former state corrections officer has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to take illegal drugs into a prison.

Henry Guice Jr., 46, was sentenced to more than six years in prison, according to a Tuesday announcement by Middle District of Alabama Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin P. Davidson.

Guice served as a correctional officer at Staton Correctional Facility and resigned from the ADOC in 2023 after being charged with trafficking a controlled substance, second-degree promoting prison contraband, and use of position for personal gain.

His arrest yielded approximately 145.8 gross grams of a “crystal like substance” which was later identified at methamphetamine.

According to court records and court testimony, an ADOC officer and his canine conducted a sniff search of all vehicles in the parking lot of Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County.

The dog alerted on Guice’s vehicle, who was working inside the facility at the time.

ADOC officials summoned Guice from his post and conducted a search of the vehicle.

Investigators found three bags of suspected methamphetamine inside Guice’s car and two additional bags in his pockets.


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Drug laboratory analysis confirmed the substance to be methamphetamine.

During his plea hearing in May of this year, Guice admitted that he possessed methamphetamine with the intent to distribute the illegal drug and that he conspired with another individual for that purpose.

A federal grand jury also indicted 48-year-old Brad Elliot Gordon, who was an inmate at Staton in June 2023, for his alleged role in the conspiracy.

Gordon’s trial is scheduled for February 3, 2025.

The DEA and the ADOC Law Enforcement Services Division investigated the case, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark E. Andreu prosecuted.

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