Several years ago, a woman brought a loaded gun into the jail stuck into her vagina, Craft said. “It is much needed for security,” Craft said.Ĭraft said the scanner has a conveyor belt and will “show everything,” even if someone has swallowed a balloon of drugs. “That looks like it will happen.”īutler County Sheriff ’s Office Major Mike Craft said their new scanner will keep drugs, weapons and other contraband out of the jail. “We have been in conversation with (county) commissioners about purchasing a body scanner for everybody coming into the jail,” Fischer said during a press conference to announce that inmate Jeremy Withers died while in custody. Inmates also have died from drug-related incidents the past few years in Montgomery, Warren, Clark, Miami and Fayette counties - all in jails without body scanners. Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer said Wednesday that he has an agreement in principle to purchase a scanner, which usually costs from $120,000 to $240,000. just let me know and I will talk to the commissioners and they’ll authorize funding out of the contingency (money),” Tuss said. “Basically, (Plummer) indicated that if he could buy it out of his commissary fund, he would, but if it wasn’t something he could do. Inmate Dustin Rybak died of an overdose last fall while waiting to testify in a trial.Ĭommissioners and county administrator Joe Tuss said Plummer has $1.7 million of discretionary money in his commissary fund to use for a jail that sometimes houses more than 900 inmates.
Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer and county officials say they’ve reached an agreement to fund a body scanner for the jail.
“The amount of contraband started decreasing.” “It began serving its purpose as word spread that we were getting it,” said Scott Springhetti, director of the Tri-County Regional Jail in Mechanicsburg, where a scanner was installed in August.
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