A former Deputy Detention Officer with the Broward Sheriff's Office has been convicted of conspiracy charges for her role in a $100,000 credit card scam, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.
Cherralyn Milton-Browner, 39, of Coral Springs, faces a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
Prosecutors said Milton-Browner developed a relationship with former inmate Onakia Griffin, who with others used identities stolen from mainly elderly victims to fraudulently apply for Chevron Visa cards.
Milton-Browner allowed Griffin to use her address on the illegally opened credit card accounts, prosecutors say, and handed them over to Griffin when they arrived in the mail.
Her sentencing is scheduled for December.
Milton-Browner is not the only detention officer to have a scrape with the law of late -- or a detrimental relationship with an inmate. At least three deputies, two former deputies, a technician, a nurse and four inmates have been arrested since January.
Detectives say former detention deputy Salisia Pascoe, 30, had sex with a murder suspect in a broom closet and also smuggled a cell phone to him so they could communicate.
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Detention Tech Kiara Walker, 22, is alleged to have provided a phone to an armed robbery suspect, with which deputies say the pair sent each other messages and Walker texted an explicit photo.
Records show Carline Jean, a jail nurse contracted through Armor Health Care, purchased and supplied a cell phone to an inmate with whom she also exchanged personal text messages.
A third former Deputy, 30-year-old Roderick Lopez, was charged with smuggling food, batteries and a cellular phone to various inmates. Authorities also say he once met an inmate's girlfriend at a McDonald's to receive a $50 smuggling payment while in uniform.
Deputy Keith McPhee, 37, is accused of earning $600 in exchange for smuggling cell phone batteries, Gatorade, and photos of an inmate's bikini-clad girlfriend into the BSO's main jail.
Jails deputy Wonza Moore, 48, faces four charges of introducing contraband into a jail facility and one each of official misconduct and unlawful use of a cell phone.
And in June, detention technician Tavares West, 34, was arrested when he arrived for work at the North Broward Detention Center with a bag of contraband he'd been paid to deliver to an inmate, police said.
