COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A former inmate at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater was ordered to serve more time in the Michigan Department of Corrections on Monday while his mother entered into a plea agreement after they were both charged in connection with a drug smuggling incident.
34-year-old Brandon Eugene Haggart entered a guilty plea to a charge of being a prisoner in possession of contraband. He was told to serve one to five years in the M.D.O.C. which will be consecutive to his current sentence. According to M.D.O.C. records, he is currently serving 86 months to 15 years in the Carson City Correctional Facility after entering no contest pleas to a pair of second degree criminal sexual conduct charges.
Michigan State Police say they and the M.D.O.C. investigated the incident at Lakeland Correctional Facility that took place during a visit on November 29, 2022 between Haggart and his 65-year-old mother Cheryl Louise Haggart of Rosebush, Michigan and an adult female friend.
During the visit, the mother allegedly handed her son a KN95 face mask that contained strips of suboxone. (suh·baak·sown) Once the visit was concluded, Brandon Haggart was searched by corrections officers and was found to have the suboxone in his possession.
Security video at the prison showed the “hand off”, but Cheryl Haggart and the female friend had already left the prison.
His mother was arrested on a warrant by the State Police on August 1 and arraigned two days later in Branch County District Court.
Cheryl Haggart entered a guilty plea to a felony charge of furnishing contraband to a prisoner. In exchange for her plea, prosecutors will drop a count of bringing contraband into a prison.
She is scheduled to be sentenced on November 13.
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