A Federal indictment names 25 people -- including 13 female corrections officers -- who face racketeering, drug and money laundering charges for activity involving the Black Guerilla Family gang inside the jail. A cabal of corrupt corrections officers and members of the Black Guerrilla Family gang enjoyed nearly free rein inside the Baltimore City Detention Center, federal authorities allege, smuggling drugs and cellphones into the jail and having sexual relationships that left four guards pregnant. It alleges that Tavon White, an inmate known as "Bulldog," took control of the prison gang soon after his arrival in 2009 on an attempted-murder charge. "This is my jail," White said on an intercepted phone call, according to the indictment. "I'm dead serious. … I make every final call in this jail … and nothing go past me, everything come to me." Federal prosecutors allege that the Black Guerrilla Family gang established a lucrative smuggling operation inside the jail under the leadership of inmate Tavon White. Gang members — with the help of corrupt guards — trafficked marijuana, prescription pills and cellphones in the jail, prosecutors say. White held power through the lure of easy money and a network of sexual relationships that left four correctional officers carrying his children. Tavon White has fathered five children with four different prison guards, an indictment claims. In an affidavit linked to the case, FBI investigators wrote that senior corrections officers had informal deals with White's gang, relying on it to curb violence inside the jail. |
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