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Bullet Smuggling Guard Sentenced
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1993, page 9
Former Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) guard Robbie Stringer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a $5,000.00 fine for smuggling seven bullets into the prison in a bag of corn chips. The sentence imposed by Judge Everett Burton was the maximum allowed by law. Stringer pleaded guilty on May 24, 1993, to one count of conveying contraband into a detention facility. SOCF is in Lucasville, Ohio, which was the scene of a bloody riot in April, 1993, that left 10 people dead.
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