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LCSO Investigation Results in Two Correctional Officers Arrested With Accomplices

A very in-depth investigation that began on January 24th by Liberty County Sheriff’s Investigators Shandalynn Rhame and Steven Rasberry has resulted in the arrest of several individuals including two Correctional Officers employed by the county jail facility. According to Rhame and Rasberry, 23-year-old Beaumont resident and Correctional Officer Andrus Fisher and 31-year-old Sgt. Rashun Demarcus White was arrested along with two accomplices, 43-year-old Linnie Lowe and 52-year-old Lesa Griffin of the City of Liberty.

 

During the course of this on-going investigation, Fisher was charged with the offense of Prohibited Substance and Items in Correctional Facility or Civil Commitment Facility; a third-degree felony and was arrested on January 27th when he arrived for work. White was also charged with the same offense as Fisher, and White was arrested on January 29th when he came to the Sheriff’s Office and turned himself in.

Investigator Rasberry also obtained arrest warrants on Lowe and Griffin for Prohibited Substances/Items in a Correctional Facility while additional charges of Manufacture and Delivery of Controlled Substance, a first-degree felony, was filed against both Lowe and Griffin.

 

This investigation was initiated on January 24th when security cameras recorded Lowe and Griffin giving a box of food to Correctional Officer Fisher in the parking lot. Then Fisher brought the food into the jail facility where a cell phone and several packages of tobacco along with baggies of a crystal-like substance believed to be methamphetamines were found concealed inside sandwiches which were meant to be delivered to two inmates confined in the jail. As the investigation continued information was received that other contraband had been taken from the jail by correctional officers and taken to a residence occupied by Fisher and White. A search warrant for that residence was obtained from 75th District Judge Mark Morefield and when the warrant was executed, six cell phones and suspected and packaged drugs, ready for delivery, were recovered.

 

A later warrant was obtained for Griffin’s residence and when that warrant was executed, Lowe was there and was seen with a bag containing a crystal-like substance, believed to be methamphetamines in her hands. Both Griffin and Lowe were arrested. All the subjects involved: Fisher, White, Griffin, and Lowe were placed in the Liberty County Jail.

 

According to Investigators Rhame and Rasberry, additional charges and additional defendants may still be pending as the investigation continues.

 

Sheriff Bobby Rader said that although this incident is a rare and regrettable occurrence that it should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that all such violations will aggressively be pursued by the Sheriff’s Office and anyone involved in such illegal activity will be charged, arrested, and prosecuted.

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