Police1 Staff Report
(WESTMINSTER, Md.) -- A corrections officer charged with smuggling heroin to inmates has been transferred to a mental health facility for evaluation, the warden said today.
Authorities are concerned that Jeffrey Ronald Meyers, 24, of Westminster is a suicide risk, said Carroll County Jail Warden George D. Hardinger. Bail was set at $50,000 after Meyers’ arrest earlier this week.
Meyers, who began working at the county detention center in November, could receive a long prison term if he is convicted of distributing heroin. He also faces charges of giving the drugs to people in confinement and to conspiring with three female prisoners who allegedly received the drug.
The investigation began when a former prisoner told a jail drug counselor that he believed narcotics were being smuggled into the institution. Sheriff Kenneth L. Tregoning said that the three women gave investigators Meyers’ name and that all three tested positive for heroin in a test administered Sunday.
Meyers allegedly received some of the heroin from an inmate’s mother and more from a source of his own. The mother allegedly gave him cocaine for his own use in return for his courier services.