Three charged in conspiracy to bring contraband into JCCC
June 30, 2021
Three individuals are charged with felonies involving a conspiracy to take contraband drugs and cellphones into James Crabtree Correctional Center (JCCC) in Helena.
Court records show on Feb. 26, Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) Agent Christopher Grace received a call from Resident Agent in Charge Keith Hawkins of the ODOC Office of Inspector General. Hawkins asked Grace to meet and interview Daniel Ross at the Enid Police Department. Hawkins explained that Ross was a corrections officer at JCCC and was at the police department to take a pre-employment polygraph. During that process, Ross admitted to being involved in the introduction of contraband into JCCC, according to the affidavit.
Agent Grace met with Enid Police Sergeant Justin Hodges on Feb. 26. Hodges told Ross he was the narcotics investigator for the Enid Police Department. Sgt. Hodges stated that he was asked to speak with Ross after Ross admitted to moving contraband packages during his pre-employment polygraph process. After briefly speaking with Ross, Hodges decided he should read Ross the Miranda Warning and take his cellular phone. Hodges stated that Ross described moving packages containing contraband to make money.
In a post-Miranda interview, Ross told Grace he was a corrections officer at JCCC and was at the Enid Police Department in an attempt to be hired as a police officer. Ross stated between August 2020 and January 2021 he would move packages containing contraband to make extra money. Ross said he would receive a text message from an unknown number about where to meet a woman he knew only as Sherri. Ross said he would drive to the designated meeting area and retrieve a package wrapped in black electrical tape from Sherri’s vehicle.
Ross said he would then take the package to another designated location and drop the package in another vehicle. Ross stated he would meet with Sherri in parking lots of businesses in and around Enid such as the Love’s Country Store east of Enid and the Dollar General located on the south side of Enid.
Ross said he rarely spoke to Sherri. Most times Sherri would be inside the business and unlock her vehicle for him when he arrived to pick up the package. Once he had the package, Ross would take it to another parking lot in and around Enid and drop it off with an unknown male.
Ross stated he never took any of the packages inside the prison but knew that the packages were to be transported to a prison. Ross said he knew some of the packages contained cellular phones and marijuana. Ross said he got paid in cash and through CashApp. Agent Grace searched Ross’ phone and found he had received several payments from a Sherri through CashApp.
On March 18, Grace was able to identify Sherri as Sherri Ingram. He learned that she was married to Sirqueintin Ingram who was an inmate at JCCC. On March 25, Grace interviewed Ross at his residence. Ross told Grace that he did in fact take the packages that he picked up from Sherri Ingram into JCCC and gave the packages to inmates.
On April 29, Agent Grace interviewed Sirqueintin Ingram. After being recited the Miranda Warning, Ingram agreed to speak without an attorney. He told Grace that he had asked Sherri Ingram to bring packages of contraband to Enid to different corrections officers to be brought into the prison. Ingram stated that he did not remember working with Ross.
On May 7, Grace interviewed Sherri Ingram at her residence. She was reminded she did not have to speak without an attorney present. She agreed to speak with Grace and told him she had been delivering packages of contraband to Enid for Sirqueintin Ingram for several months. She stated she did not remember working with anyone named Daniel Ross. Ingram did say she would park in parking lots of businesses in and around Enid and unlock her vehicle for someone to take packages from the vehicle while she was inside the business. She named Love’s Country Store and Dollar General as businesses used to make deliveries.
On June 21 in Alfalfa County, Daniel J. Ross, 25, of Enid, was charged with conspiracy and with two counts of bringing contraband (weapons, explosives, drugs, intoxicating beverage, low point beer, money) into a jail or penal institution. All three are felonies.
On June 21 Sirqueintin Ingram, 41, was charged with conspiracy, bringing contraband drugs into a penal institution and bringing contraband cell phones into a penal institution. All three are felonies.
Also, Sherri Ingram, 51, of Helena was charged with conspiracy, a felony.
Conspiracy is punishable by imprisonment for up to ten years or a fine of up to $5,000 or both.
The contraband charges are punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for one to five
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