COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The mother of a former Lakeland Correctional Facility inmate was ordered to serve one to five years in the Michigan Department of Corrections on Monday in Branch County Circuit Court in connection with a drug smuggling incident.
65-year-old Cheryl Louise Haggart of Rosebush, Michigan entered a guilty plea to a felony charge of furnishing contraband to a prisoner. In exchange for her plea, prosecutors dropped a charge of bringing contraband into a prison.
She was given credit for 104 days already spent in jail.
Michigan State Police and the M.D.O.C. investigated the incident at Lakeland Correctional Facility that took place during a visit on November 29, 2022 between 34-year-old Brandon Eugene Haggart, his mother and an adult female friend.
During the visit, the mother handed her son a KN95 face mask that contained strips of suboxone. 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”. Cheryl Haggart and the female friend had already left the prison. Cheryl Haggart was arrested on a warrant by the State Police on August 1, 2023.
Brandon Haggart had already entered a guilty plea to a charge of being a prisoner in possession of contraband. He was ordered to serve one to five years in the M.D.O.C. which was to be served consecutive to another sentence.
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