MS correctional officer trainee arrested for contraband

Published 11:03 am Wednesday, October 2, 2019

(AP) — A Mississippi Department of Corrections officer trainee has been arrested after contraband was found in her car.

Forty-eight-year-old Elizabeth Edmonds is accused of violating state laws prohibiting the furnishing of contraband to anyone in a correctional facility and the sale or possession of a controlled substance in a correctional facility.

The department, in a news release Tuesday, said a Sept. 17 investigation at Pike County Community Work Center found a package in Edmonds’ vehicle that contained two cellphones, a pair of Bluetooth headphones, tobacco, a crystalline substance believed to be methamphetamine and a leafy substance believed to contain spice.

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Edmonds, whose hometown was not released, began working for MDOC on Feb. 19. Department officials say she no longer works for the agency.

It was unknown if Edmonds has an attorney.