Michigan trainer arrested for smuggling fentanyl, cash, cell for telephone intercourse into jail: sheriff

A Michigan trainer is accused of smuggling medication, a cellphone for telephone intercourse and cash to inmates below the guise of working as a jail educator, officers stated Friday. 

Meredith Leyrer, 54, was arrested on Monday and faces fees of producing and delivering narcotics, bringing contraband right into a correctional facility and bringing a telephone right into a correctional facility, all felonies, Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson stated in a video posted to the division’s Fb web page on Friday. 

Leyrer started abusing her position as an educator for the Inmate Development Naturally and Deliberately By way of Training (IGNITE) program final December, Swanson stated. 

Swanson referred to as IGNITE an “schooling mannequin, a tradition change” however to “see any individual from the within attempt to take that down now we have to understand that nothing is sacred.” 

He added that the kind of drug smuggling conspiracy Leyrer was allegedly concerned with on the jail is troublesome to undertake and people who do “use their positions of affect and belief, they usually abuse it.” 

Leyrer, who was a trainer at Mount Morris Excessive College, a companion with IGNITE, allegedly deposited greater than $630 into three inmates accounts beginning in December earlier than she started smuggling in fentanyl drugs and cans of marijuana wax. 

Surveillance video from the jail allegedly confirmed Leyrer go greater than 100 fentanyl drugs to an inmate inside a folder whereas they sat at a desk throughout a lesson in the future. 

“This isn’t a trainer it is a drug smuggler who performs the position of a trainer,” Swanson stated. 

He stated Leyrer additionally smuggled in cellphone into the jail “so she may have telephone intercourse” with inmates, including that she made greater than 350 calls to inmates in December. 

Swanson stated Leyrer burst into tears when he advised her how “dissatisfied” he was in her after her arrest, saying that she advised him she had “low shallowness” and had been “groomed” by the inmates. 

Swanson stated she started justifying her actions due to her grooming in an identical approach an addict does. She stays in custody on a $20,000 bond. 

Swanson promised that he wouldn’t surrender on IGNITE “due to a drug smuggler.” 

“We’re by no means going to relent,” he stated , saying he “accepted accountability” that Leyrer’s alleged conspiracy was capable of proceed for seven months earlier than she was caught. 

“Something good goes to be battle-tested and in the long run we’re going to be higher for it,” he added.