Brandon Inghram, Sarahbelle Stafford, Timothy Winters. Stafford and Winters are corrections officers at the Lake Erie Correctional Institute

  • Brandon Inghram, Sarahbelle Stafford, Timothy Winters. Stafford and Winters are corrections officers at the Lake Erie Correctional Institute

The Geauga County Sheriff’s Office busted three people on meth-related charges on Wedenesday. Two of them are prison guards, the department announced today.

According to the department, detectives got a search warrant for a home in Huntsburg and found Timothy R. Winters “attempting to hide a ‘one pot’ meth lab inside of the residence.” Winters, 27, is a corrections officer at Lake Erie Correctional Institute in Conneaut.

Inside, they said they found four of those “one pot” bottles, and arrested Winters, Brandon D Inghram, 24, and Sarahbelle Stafford, 27. Stafford is also a corrections officer at the prison, the department said.

Winters and Inghram are charged with manufacturing of drugs, a second degree felony. Stafford was charged with complicity to manufacturing of drugs.

According to Geauga County and Chardon Municipal court records, Winters, the prison guard, has multiple drug arrests. He was cited in 2006 for misdemeanor marijuana possession. In May 2013, he was indicted for felony drug possession and menacing. We couldn’t find any other arrests for Sarahbelle Stafford, the other prison guard.

This article appears in Apr 8-14, 2015.

Doug Brown is a staff writer at Scene with a passion for public records laws and investigative reporting. A native of Ann Arbor, Mich., he has an M.A. in journalism from the Kent State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a B.A. in political science from Hiram College. Prior to joining Scene, Doug was a contributing writer for Deadspin.com, reporting behind-the-scenes stories about college sports through public records and developing sources. Doug's work as an enterprise reporter for the Daily Kent Stater was recognized by the Cleveland Press Club (2013 Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards), Society of Professional Journalists (regional and national Mark of Excellence Awards), and the Associated Collegiate Press. He spent the summer of 2012 working for the Metro desk of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and spent previous summers working for Outside Bozeman Magazine and Crain's Detroit Business. His website is dougbrown8.com.

One reply on “Two Prison Guards Arrested For Meth in Geauga County”

  1. These correctional officers treat the prisoners horribly and half of them are in there for the same thing these guys just got busted for. What hypocrites. I would like to know the requirements for becoming a correctional officer. they ought to be held to a little higher standards then what looks like. If any criminal off the street can be in charge of hundreds of inmates, who knows what all goes on in there ? I hope that these guys get locked up for this

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