A guard at the Tucker Unit of the Department of Correction was arrested Monday after suspected drugs were found in his boot during a search of employees reporting to work.
DeJuan Wills, 31, of Little Rock allegedly told state police investigators he had been threatened into bringing the contraband into the facility, Arkansas State Police Special Agent Oscar Bullard said in a probable cause affidavit presented in district court Tuesday.
According to the affidavit, prison employees were conducting a shake-down of employees reporting for work at 5:50 a.m. when one of them found suspected marijuana inside a plastic bag in a black boot Wills was wearing.
Bullard said in the affidavit that when the employee unrolled the plastic bag, they found six individually rolled baggies of suspected marijuana that weighed a total of 1.75 ounces.
When Wills was interviewed, he allegedly said he had been threatened by an unknown inmate and found a note and the contraband on his personal vehicle in Little Rock, as well as instructions telling him to deliver the contraband to Tucker.
Jefferson County District Judge Kim Bridgforth set a $5,000 bond for Wills after ruling prosecutors have probable cause to charge him with possession of a controlled substance with purpose to deliver and introducing prohibited articles into a correctional facility.