Crime

Bibb County Sheriff’s deputy charged with bringing contraband into county jail

The Bibb County Law Enforcement Center which also houses the county’s jail along Oglethorpe Street in downtown Macon.
The Bibb County Law Enforcement Center which also houses the county’s jail along Oglethorpe Street in downtown Macon. / Telegraph archives

A Bibb County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested and charged Wednesday with bringing drugs and other contraband into the county jail.

Deputy Briana Sharnerica Pitts, who has been working as a part-time deputy since November, was arrested and charged with bringing cell phones, tobacco and marijuana into the Bibb County jail on Sept. 8, according to a sheriff’s office press release.

She was booked in to the jail and given a $10,000 bond. The incident is still under investigation.

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Caleb Slinkard is the Georgia Editor for McClatchy, running the Macon Telegraph and Columbus Ledger-Enquirer newsrooms. Previously, he led newsrooms for the El Dorado (Ark.) News-Times, the Norman (Okla.) Transcript and the Greenville (Texas) Herald-Banner. He’s a graduate of Texas A&M University-Commerce and has taught journalism classes and practicums at the University of Oklahoma and Mercer University.
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