LANCASTER – A 43-year-old man who worked as a guard at a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facility in Lancaster pleaded no contest Tuesday to bringing contraband into the prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Andre Pierre Scott also admitted that the crime was committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang, according to Deputy District Attorney Craig Kleffman.
The prosecutor said Scott is a member of the Pasadena Denver Lane Bloods street gang, and Scott distributed phones, heroin and marijuana at the prison in 2012 and 2013. The contraband was either smuggled in by Scott or thrown over a prison fence by civilians and then distributed by Scott, according to the prosecutor.
The criminal case stemmed from an investigation by the Internal Affair Bureau of CDCR.
An informant tipped off prison investigators in late 2013; and in November of that year, three agents confronted Scott before his shift at the Lancaster prison’s minimum support facility, according to testimony at a preliminary court hearing.
The agents searched Scott’s belongings and found vacuumed-sealed bags of marijuana, cellophane-wrapped packages of heroin, and several cell phones intended for inmates, according to court testimony by internal affairs agent William Yarbrough.
According to Yarbrough’s testimony, authorities served a search warrant at Scott’s Lancaster home, where they found packages of marijuana, a stolen loaded .357 magnum handgun, a scale, vacuum sealed bags, and letters and paraphernalia associated with the Pasadena Denver Lane Bloods street gang. Read more on the December 2013 preliminary court hearing here.
Scott, a correctional officer for more than 10 years, was arrested Nov. 28, 2013. He was fired a day later and charged with two counts of bringing drugs into prison, possession of marijuana for sale, possession for sales of a controlled substance, sales or transportation of marijuana and sales or transportation of a controlled substance.
Scott has been jailed on $1 million bail since his 2013 arrest.
After pleading no contest Tuesday to bringing contraband into the prison, Scott was immediately sentenced to four years in state prison and waived credit for two years he has already spent behind bars.
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War Monger says
What happened with the background check to get a Guard Card, or a carry permit? Isn’t this what the Lefties are all enraged about? Who cleared him? Where did the hot .357 come from? Background checks are worthless. Gun Control is worthless as well. Why don’t we just call it People Control instead that’s what it really is.
PrisonPlanet says
And on a side note. You ever met a prison guard who wasn’t a total raging right-winger? Nah, neither have I.
Ann says
Background checks are just that….Background. They don’t tell the future. Your comments are truly ridiculous. Every profession has some bad seeds! Law enforcement deals with the worst people on earth daily! How about you try to get a job and walk in their shoes prior to judging them on a whole.
Signed,
Tired of AV Trash
Officer ?? says
Prison planet.. Your a fu–n moron. Aren’t you late for the welfare line ? There serving that government cheese you like..
John says
U can’t blame dena boy for make some extra cash the state ant paying [removed]; risking ur life for crums just because he black put the blame on him so [removed] what he brong [removed] to the prison they all do it , white CO do it all the time in prison I seen it AWb MiA it’s all the same
Mike C says
Why don’t you learn how to write before you try to post something you moron. California prison guards make more then enough money to live on without smuggling drugs and other contraband into the prison for their homies. And working on a minimum one yard isn’t risking your life. Your as ignorant as this idiot is that was smuggling stuff into the prison. And it’s not just because he’s black. Your just an ignorant black like all the rest of the blacks that believe in the so called ( it’s because he’s black theory). Go get some education somewhere.
PrisonPlanet says
Ain’t no group of people on this planet more coddled than the prison guards. The CCPOA is the main culprit standing in the way of cleaning up these pampered contraband smuggling crooks.
Shane Falco says
They knew he was dirty for a long time. It’s not the CCPOA that is the problem, it’s officers that walk like, talk like, act like and openly fraternize with inmates. It’s a larger problem with the black C/O’s yet the black sergeants, lieutenants and captains are quick to look the other way.
Scott was one of three C/O’s in that area and the only black officer of the three and it was consistently the black inmates in his area who had the contraband. It wasn’t hard to figure out it was him smuggling it in.
I recall the earlier article when he was first arrested with people defending him and people like Egberts saying he wouldn’t get a fair shake in the AV courthouse because he was black. This dude was smuggling for years, had a stolen firearm, endangered the safety of his fellow officers while making over $100K and the only reason he got away with it so long was BECAUSE he is black.
David says
Do the guards get searched coming and going? Do they go through metal detectors or body scans. I’m sure they all enter through one door. It would be nice to see that actual policy. We definitely don’t want contraband entering prisons by any means.
MHMMMM says
this guy is scum and deserves evrything he gets but you do realize how much drugs are in out prisons right? and a very very small amount of that will is brought in by dirty guards. there is every type of drug in our prisons! its easier to get in there than it is on the streets just triple the price
Nancy P says
A couple years in jail where he can recruit other CO’s to do the same. Small price to pay for the betrayal of the Badge. All his “homies” probably scattered so the finger pointing and long arms of justice couldn’t find them. Moved to another county, or state, to avoid investigation.
PrisonPlanet says
….And the prison guard union, the CCPOA actively protects, even encourages this behavior. Crooked through and through. Dig deeper, or are those CCPOA campaign donations jue too enticing? Trash.
Patty says
Welcome to the Antelope Valley…..He is just a low man on the chain….i bet if ya dig deeper you would find more corrupt Guards…
John says
Where are his gang buddies, (the dena boys) now? Did they help him post bail? Did they provide him with a good attorney? Will they take care of his family while he’s doing his time? These so called “gang members” are the lowest form of life next to something you might find on the bottom of your shoe. Have fun doing your four years up at State Prison, Mule Creek. And by all means-WATCH YOUR BACK!
Bob says
I remember this scum bag. He would always quote verses from the bible, not to mention singing gospel songs to the inmates. What a croc! While taking a shower for the next four years in prison the new song he’ll be singing will be, “Don’t drop the soap”. You can take the boy out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of the boy!
Johnny Trece says
This guy is a moron. He should have known that he would get caught up sooner or later.
Alsofedup says
Moron is the operative word here. They don’t think they’ll get caught.