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FORMER CORRECTIONS OFFICER APPREHENDED, JAILED

(Richmond, IN)--A warrant was issued Wednesday and a former civil corrections officer with the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department was put behind bars at the jail where she worked six months ago.  24-year-old Adrain Blanton is charged with trafficking with an inmate.  Sheriff Randy Retter said Wednesday that Blanton was immediately fired when the alleged scheme was discovered last August.  She allegedly brought suboxone strips into the jail in exchange for $2000.