March 11, 2010 - United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in Midland, 62-year-old Frank Williams, Jr., of Pecos, a former food services employee at the Reeves County Detention Center (RCDC), pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband, including tobacco and cell phones, to prisoners.
As part of his plea before United States Magistrate Judge David Counts this morning, Williams admitted that beginning sometime in 2006, and continuing until he was fired in August 2008, he periodically accepted cash payments from relatives of inmates to smuggle items into RCDC. On August 6, 2008, RCDC security personnel caught Williams trying to sneak into the facility a package containing two cell phones, three cell phone chargers and a blue tooth headset, all of which were meant for inmates.
Williams also acknowledged that one of the phone he smuggled in had been used by an inmate, behind bars, to further the inmate’s continued drug trafficking activities.
Williams faces up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced in May.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice-Office of Inspector General. Assistant United States Attorney John S. Klassen is prosecuting this matter for the government.
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