ROCKLAND, Maine — A Knox County Jail guard has been charged with a crime after he allegedly gave a female inmate a cigarette.

Corrections Officer Adam Grierson, 25, of South Thomaston was issued the summons Saturday for trafficking in prison contraband, Knox County Sheriff Donna Dennison said Tuesday.

Grierson has been placed on paid administrative leave while an internal investigation is conducted, she said.

The sheriff said there is a state law that prohibits tobacco products in the jail and any tobacco is considered contraband. The summons was issued to the guard by a Knox County deputy.

“We have to take this seriously or small things can turn into bigger things,” the sheriff said.

Grierson has worked at the jail for four years.

Trafficking in tobacco at a jail is a Class E crime with a maximum penalty of six months in jail.

The sheriff said she was unable to provide more details on the case before it goes to court.

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    1. That’s why she needed the smoke…..smokers like to smoke after sex. 

      Vanessa Kensington asked me once if I smoked after sex.  My reply?  I don’t know baby, I’ve never checked.

  1. C’mon folks. This could be the breakthru  case Knox County needs to introduce Restorative Justice.
    Of couse if anybody had the cajones to ask top cop DD what her current therapeutic model
    for treating the perps under her care you would get that blank Andy Kaufman stare,
    Watch her body language when you ask her what standards of performance she has and when was the last timer anyone held her accountable?
    Don’t even think about asking her if she keeps recidivism records.
    Did I mention what it cost to house one perp in her electronic cesspool for one year?
    see  http://www.vera.org/files/price-of-prisons-maine-fact-sheet.pdf

    speaking of stares you still got your un-informed criminal justice consumer stare, eh?

  2. the things people do, for love LOL
    Now he may be in the inside with the others, but I wouldn’t bet money on it.

    1. That was so good! They should have a “Nominate for award” button next to the “Like” button.

  3. Tobacco… prison contraband?  six months in jail, loss of job, and receiver of all the b0llsh!t comments on this board…. maybe just a little overkill?

  4. Great , we have smugglers guarding the inmates.
    So , whos guarding the out of control guards.

    The only difference between the guards and the inmates is , the guards go home at night.

  5. Perhaps we could use those investigators for the computer crimes division that is backlogged with hundreds of child porn cases.

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