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Okla. Jail Guard Busted For Sneaking Drug-Stuffed Burrito Into Work

June 13, 2017 By HardBoiledNews Staff

Kevin Mayo,

TULSA, Oklahoma — A jail guard was arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs he stashed inside the burrito he had brought to work for lunch.

The Tulsa County Sheriff’s office say they began investigating 20-year-old Kevin Clevon Mayo after receiving a tip he was sneaking contraband into the Tulsa Jail.

As he arrived for work last Friday, Mayo was stopped and his bag searched. Inside, officers found a Tupperware container containing fried chicken and the burrito.

Concealed inside the burrito was about four grams of marijuana, some crushed-up hydrocodone pills and two grams of methamphetamine, the Tulsa World reported.

They also found two cell phone chargers, rolling papers and three cigarette lighters and a cell phone battery. And stuffed inside Mayo’s sock was a cell phone still in its packaging, authorities said.

Mayo initially denied knowing how the drugs in the burrito ended up in his bag or why he had a cellphone in his sock, cops said.

He later admitted meeting with the friend of an inmate at the jail who gave him the phone to bring to the inmate. Police say he also said he successfully brought a phone into the jail a few weeks earlier.

Mayo, who started on the job in March, was charged with carrying contraband into a jail, possession of drug paraphernalia, conspiracy to commit a felony, possession of marijuana with intent and two counts of possession of a controlled drug with intent.

He has been placed on administrative leave without pay.

Filed Under: Dumb + Dumberer, Featured Story, Featured Story Right, Oklahoma, South West, STORY OF THE DAY

Feds Nail Phony Cop Who Was Running a Texas County Jail

January 21, 2017 By HardBoiledNews Staff

Jordan Jericho Bautista-Gunter was not who he claimed to be

SAN ANTONIO — A man masquerading as a police officer who somehow managed to get a job running a county jail in Texas, has been sentenced to 63 months in prison for repeatedly taking guns aboard planes.

Federal prosecutors say the bizarre case of Jordan Jericho Bautista-Gunter began in late 2015, when he secured a contract to help turn around the Frio County Jail which had been shut down earlier that year for failing to meet state standards.

Local officials had given the 26-year-old Bautista-Gunter the $100,000 a year job because they believed he was a licensed police officer. They were wrong.

Turns out Bautista-Gunter had pretended to be a cop before in the state of Maryland, where he went by the name of Forrest Jordan Burghard Gunter, and had been arrested there several times. In 2011, he pleaded guilty to possessing a concealed deadly weapon and was given a three-year suspended sentence. As a result, he was banned from carrying a firearm or any police equipment.

Later that year, he was busted again when he was spotted wearing body armor and carrying a baton after getting a job as a bail bondsman, the Herald-Mail reported. At the time, Bautista-Gunter’s mother said her son suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism.

Prosecutors say in late 2014, he legally changed his name in Texas to Jordan Jericho Bautista-Gunter.

Frio County Attorney Joseph Sindon told the San Antonio Express-News that Bautista-Gunter spoke like a cop and was thoroughly convincing.

“He said the right things, checked the right boxes,” he said. “As much as everyone here feels pretty silly about this, we weren’t the only ones he duped.”

Shortly after getting the job running the jail, the story took an even stranger turn, prosecutors said. While conditions at the jail improved and state officials allowed it to be reopened, Bautista-Gunter was accused of sexually harassing an employee, the newspaper reported.

In January 2016, Bautista-Gunter showed up at the home of a former inmate in the middle of the night and demanded a urine sample. When Bautista-Gunter called local cops to help transport the former inmate back to jail, the responding officers ran a check and realized they were dealing with a man pretending to be a cop.

He was arrested by the feds in February on charges of taking guns on planes nearly two dozen times as part of prisoner transfers by telling airline and security officials he was a cop. He has been jailed since.

Prosecutors have alleged that Bautista-Gunter may have had some involvement in a murder-for-hire plot, although he was never charged.

Filed Under: Creepy, Featured Story, Featured Story Right, Real Weirdos, South West, STORY OF THE DAY, Texas

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