Three people have been charged with bringing contraband into the Montgomery County Jail.
Deputies received an anonymous tip that a kitchen employee with Trinity Service Group, who provides food services to inmates, was bringing in prescription narcotics to an inmate.
Twenty-eight-year-old Sean Richard Dale Gartside was charged with contraband in a penal institution. The investigation revealed that Gartside was allegedly transporting prescription narcotics in his shoe and delivering them to an inmate who is part of an inmate work detail in the kitchen.
Gartside was also charged with simple possession and unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon. Those two charges were related to Investigators finding a THC vape pen and a loaded handgun during a search of his vehicle.
A news release says 48-year old Martha Lynn Sherrod was also charged with contraband in a penal institution for providing the prescription narcotics to Gartside to deliver to the inmate.
The inmate that the prescription narcotics were delivered to was also charged. Thirty-seven-year-old Edward Benjamin Bertram was charged with contraband in a penal institution.
Sheriff John Fuson says, “Inmates who work in the kitchen are housed at the Workhouse, which is separate from our jail population. A subsequent search of the entire Workhouse and all of the inmates housed there revealed nothing related to this investigation.”
Trinity Service Group also terminated Gartside’s employment.
Sherrod has been taken into custody and Bertram was already in custody. Anyone with information on the location of Gartside is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at 931-648-06111 ext. 13209.
