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Last updated on Friday, September 29, 2017
(WABASH) - A Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Officer was arrested Wednesday morning by Correctional Police on Trafficking and related charges.
25-year-old Aaron McQuaid of Lawrenceville, Illinois is initially charged with trafficking with an inmate and official misconduct.
McQuaid reportedly admitted having tobacco in a pill bottle, a suboxone strip in his wallet along with over $180.
Investigators allege he also admitted to previously smuggling 50 suboxone strips into the facility for an offender, in exchange for a $500 payoff.
McQuaid was fired and stripped of his uniform prior to transport to the Sullivan County Jail.
Bond was set at $23,000.
McQuaid had been on the job for just one year.
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