The May 2022 indictment accuses him of directing an associate on the outside, Christopher Sumlin, who broke into Kicklighter’s house and shot the man to death. The central figure in the alleged murder and contraband smuggling plot is Weekes, 26, a Lithonia resident who entered the prison system in 2021 to serve a 17-year sentence for committing a string of armed robberies in DeKalb County. “That was actually a hit ordered on a correction officer who was a straight-up, righteous guard who couldn’t be bought, couldn’t be intimidated, couldn’t be threatened,” former GBI Director Vic Reynolds previously told Channel 2 Action News. The GBI began looking into the alleged corruption in May 2022, a month after an inmate, Nathan Weekes, and three others were indicted in connection with Kicklighter’s slaying. Kicklighter was killed at his home in what has been described as a hit intended for his neighbor, an officer at the prison who reportedly had stood up to contraband smuggling at the facility. The warrants, released Thursday, also say that Adams, 48, provided false statements to a GBI special agent in an April 2022 interview when he contended that he had not been solicited or bribed by an inmate during the previous 10 years.Įvidence of an extensive contraband smuggling ring based at the prison was discovered amid a GBI investigation of the January 2021 murder of 88-year-old Bobby Carlton Kicklighter in Glennville.
currency” through “a pattern of racketeering activity” associated with the Yves Saint Laurent Squad, a smuggling ring operating inside the prison. Warrants for his arrest say that he received “U.S.
He was in the Tattnall County jail Wednesday but has since been released, according to online records.
The GBI has arrested a Georgia warden on charges that he received cash payments as part of a widespread contraband operation at the prison he oversaw.īrian Dennis Adams was fired Wednesday as the warden at Smith State Prison in Glennville after he was charged with violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), making or writing false statements, violating his oath as a public officer and bribery.
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