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    The former sheriff’s lieutenant was convicted of smuggling drugs into the jail

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    A former Waukesha County sheriff’s lieutenant has been sentenced to four months in prison and one year of supervised release after he smuggled marijuana and a cell phone to an inmate in the Waukesha County Jail, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. said Thursday.

    Johanna Grace, aged 34 pleaded guilty to felonies in federal court in July. Prosecutors say Grace coordinated with associates outside the prison “multiple times” to bring contraband into the facility.

    An informant outside the prison alerted authorities to her misconduct, according to U.S. Attorney Gregory Haanstad. Grace shared internal law enforcement reports with her associates, he said, who confronted the informant. Grace admitted to obstructing justice, Haanstad said.

    “Today’s sentence is the direct result of an individual who abused her authority and violated the trust of the residents she was entrusted to serve and protect,” Haanstad said in a statement.

    U.S. District Judge JP Stadtmueller said a prison sentence was necessary to deter others and that Grace’s request for probation was not appropriate, according to the release.

    The case was investigated by the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

    Grace faces separate charges of allegedly abusing a resident of a correctional facility in the death last year of Waukesha County Jail inmate Randy Glenn Jr.

    Investigators said Glenn was arrested during a traffic stop on Jan. 16, 2023, for a probation violation that was related to previous drug convictions. Glenn was found dead in his cell the next morning.

    An autopsy report found five small bags containing about 10 grams of cocaine in Glenn’s stomach.

    Grace and Deborah Link, a prison nurse, were charged with resident abuse in a correctional facility, a felony. Both are scheduled for a hearing in the case on Nov. 8.

    Contact Hope Karnopp at [email protected] or X at @hopekarnopp.

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