A Pulaski County sheriff's office deputy has resigned after he and three others were arrested Thursday for attempting to smuggle contraband items to an inmate at the Pulaski County jail.
Deputy Kyle Guyer, 24, of Cabot resigned his position Thursday via a handwritten letter after investigators intercepted a jail phone call that day about a contraband drop, according to a Pulaski County sheriff's office report.
Inmate Wesley Wooley III, 23, called his father Wesley Wooley, 57, and informed him that the contraband drop would take place at the jail in the deputy's vehicle, the report states.
Investigators witnessed Wooley drop a package in the vehicle that contained tobacco, candy and $20 cash, according to the report.
A second package, containing a smokeless tobacco can with a thin layer of tobacco covering a hidden amount of marijuana and methamphetamine, was dropped in Guyer's vehicle by Lisa Gray, 43, of Jacksonville, the report states.
Wooley and Gray were detained and arrested, authorities said.
Investigators saw Guyer exit the jail, retrieve one of the packages from his vehicle and went back into the jail, according to the report. When investigators approached Guyer, he dropped the package into a trashcan and walked into the break room where he was arrested.
Inmate Wooley was charged with criminal attempt to possess prohibited articles and use of a communication device to facilitate certain crimes, the report states. His father was charged with furnishing prohibited articles and has been released on bond, Pulaski County sheriff's office spokesman Capt. Carl Minden said in an email.
Gray was charged with furnishing prohibited articles, use of a communication device to facilitate certain crimes, possession of marijuana and methamphetamine with purpose to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia, the report states. She has been released on bond from the Pulaski County jail, Minden said.
Guyer was charged with use of a communication device to facilitate certain crimes, criminal attempt to furnish marijuana and methamphetamine, furnishing prohibited articles and unauthorized use of another's property, according to the report. He is being held at the Pulaski County jail in lieu of $85,000 bond.
