A female Rikers Island guard was busted for giving drugs to an
inmate in exchange for sex — after a law-enforcement pooch sounded the
alarm, smelling pot on the employee when she showed up to work,
authorities said Sunday.
Gunner the dog was working an early-morning shift Saturday in front
of the George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island when he allegedly
smelled trouble on probationary Corrections Officer Nicole Bartley.
Bartley, reporting for a 5 a.m. shift change, had no contraband on
her, but Gunnar still picked up the drug’s scent, officials said.
Investigators searching her house later found a package of weed, which
they determined to be for an inmate she was having sex with, they said.
The nearly 70 gram package was confiscated, and Bartley was
collared on charges of rape in the third degree, sexual misconduct,
official misconduct, promoting prison contraband, and criminal
possession of marijuana in the fourth degree, authorities said.
Bartley was Gunner’s second bust at Rikers this week. The chocolate
Labrador helped nab Officer Mohammed Sufian on Wednesday, after he
sniffed out synthetic marijuana stashed in the man’s sock, authorities
said.
“Such corrupt and indecent actions contribute to the troubling
conditions on Rikers Island, and undermine safety and security there,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement.
Bartley, who has worked at Rikers since May 2014, faces up to four years in prison on the top charge.
The New York City Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark
Peters said her arrest marks the 26th Corrections employee nabbed since
the DOI began probing corruption at Rikers in 2014.
Source: Newyork Post
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