Two Contract Workers at Fountain Correctional Facility Face Contraband Charges, ADOC Says
Two contract employees at Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore face charges after ADOC says they admitted to taking part in an effort to bring drugs and contraband into the prison.
ATMORE, Ala. — Two contract employees at Fountain Correctional Facility have been arrested on prison contraband charges in a case the Alabama Department of Corrections says involves an effort to bring narcotics and other banned items into the Atmore prison.
ADOC’s Narcotics and K-9 units made the second arrest, according to a release from Public Information Manager Kelly Betts. Both women are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
The charges
Shantrellanee Robertson was arrested Oct. 29 after a search at her home in Atmore, ADOC said. She is charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband, prohibited activities and conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime.
Lakellia Williams, 30, was arrested Nov. 3 and charged with second-degree promoting prison contraband and conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime involving distribution.
Both were booked into the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton, according to ADOC. Williams remained in custody as of Tuesday.
What ADOC says investigators found
ADOC said its investigation resulted in both women admitting to taking part in an organization that coordinated getting narcotics and other contraband into the prison. Court documents state that Williams arranged to have drugs dropped off at her home to be taken into the facility.
“This case is another example of ADOC’s proactive efforts to identify and combat the introduction of contraband into the state’s correctional facilities,” Betts said.
The department released few other details, including the nature of the women’s contract work at the prison.
A prison already under scrutiny
The arrests are not the first contraband investigation tied to Fountain this year. On Aug. 14, ADOC agents searching a Montgomery residence seized about 19 pounds of marijuana and $30,000 in cash as part of an investigation into contraband believed to be headed for the same prison, the department said at the time. A former inmate who lived there was charged with trafficking marijuana.
It is not clear from ADOC’s announcement whether that case and the arrests of the two contract employees are connected.
