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CORTEZ, Colo.—A former Montezuma County Sheriff’s deputy has admitted he gave meth to jail inmates.
Craig James Morrison of Cortez pleaded guilty Tuesday and faces up to six years in prison. The former jailer said that inmates at the county jail threatened to beat up his wife if he did not supply them with methamphetamine.
Morrison brought the drug to at least two inmates between February and April of last year.
The man who sold the drug to Morrison, Shawn Dwain Randolph, was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison.
Morrison will be sentenced March 2.
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Information from: Cortez Journal,
