Guard arrested on drug charges

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A prison guard was arrested on Friday for attempting to smuggle drugs into the Metropolitan Transition Center, a state-run correctional facility in Baltimore City.

Twenty-two-year-old Antwan Blackwell, a guard working at the MTC, told state corrections investigators that he smuggled marijuana into the prison for an “unnamed prisoner.” The marijuana was found in Blackwell?s back pocket during a routine search. Blackwell told investigators that he was paid $100 to deliver the drugs.

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