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Employee Charged With Attempting To Smuggle Drugs Into Atmore Prison
December 8, 2024
An Atmore man has been charged with attempting to smuggle drugs and contraband into Fountain Correctional Facility.
Vincent Bishop, an Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) employee, was charged with trafficking flakka, first-degree possession of marijuana, attempting to commit a controlled substance crime, prohibited activities (cell phones in a correctional facility), possession of drug paraphernalia, and first-degree attempt to promote prison contraband. Flakka, according to the DEA, is a street drug commonly called bath salts.
ADOC K-9 personnel, following an ongoing investigation, observed suspicious activity involving inmates attempting to access a parking lot near Bishop’s vehicle. A traffic stop was conducted with K-9 personnel and local law enforcement, and a K-9 made a positive alert for narcotics. A subsequent search revealed marijuana, flakka, tobacco, cell phones, and charging cables concealed under the truck, according to ADOC.
The state said Bishop refused to resign from his position as a drug treatment counselor at the prison as and is now on mandatory leave. He was arrested and transported to the Escambia County Detention Facility where he was being held without bond.
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7 Responses to “Employee Charged With Attempting To Smuggle Drugs Into Atmore Prison”
You swore to up hold the law you put on the uniform and badge and then blatantly spit in the face of all who wears and wore the uniform and badge with honor. What a tragic idiotic decision you made but question is how many times you got lucky and how many other do the something. As someone who wore my uniforms with the upmost respect you deserve to be slammed with the full collar of what they can hit you with. Hope your family has a great Christmas thinking of how much you have let them down great job looser.
Agreed 100%!!!!!!!!
Weak people with a little power in these positions (like this guy) are disrespected by their fellow Officers, friends, family AND inmates. Let that sink in.
I see a future leader of Century in the near future
A Drug Treatment Counselor. Who better to help them with their “therapy”? In truth, most of the people qualified to do this work are sincere dedicated professionals. This counselor will get plenty of time for counseling once he is behind bars…as an inmate.
IMHO, those who use such a position of trust to commit crimes need extra punishment added to whatever else they are awarded.
Put him in there with all his drug friends and he won’t be doing that anymore