Guard charged with smuggling marijuana into prison
(Published Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:26:38 PM CST)
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Associated Press
OAK PARK HEIGHTS, Minn. - A guard at Oak Park Heights Prison has been charged with smuggling marijuana into the facility.
Tyler Gronskei, 28, of New Richmond, Wis., told investigators that she twice brought marijuana into the prison for inmate Timothy Baugh, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint alleges that Baugh paid her $1,000 for each delivery.
Gronskei is slated to appear in court May 15 and faces up to ten years in prison if she's convicted.
Gronskei was fired March 2 after an internal probe concluded she had violated prison policy against having "interpersonal association and sexual misconduct between staff and offenders," as well as having broken rules against having contraband in the prison, according to a prison memo.
She admitted to having a relationship with Baugh, though the memo doesn't name the offender.
Baugh is one of the most notorious serial rapists in Minnesota history. In 1994, he was sentenced to 139 years in prison for attacking 14 women in Minneapolis - in many cases after sneaking into their homes at night.
