Pubdate: Wed, 01 Oct 2003
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA)
Copyright: 2003 Richmond Newspapers Inc.
Contact:  http://www.timesdispatch.com/
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Author: Calvin R. Trice

FORMER DEPUTY HEADED TO PRISON

Inmates Got Crack From Jail Supervisor

HARRISONBURG - A federal judge has sentenced former sheriff's deputy Kevin 
Glin Kinsey to serve three years and four months in prison for dealing 
cocaine while supervising jail inmates in Warren County.

U.S. District Judge James C. Turk gave Kinsey a 40-month term for each of 
five counts of trafficking crack cocaine as a sheriff's deputy in the 
county. The 23-year-old former deputy will serve the sentences 
concurrently, court records show.

Kinsey, of Front Royal, was in his first year as an officer in the Warren 
Sheriff's Office last year when his activities came under suspicion.

In summer 2002, he helped supervise jail inmates in the Restitution and 
Inmate Development Program for Warren, a county of 32,000 residents in the 
northern Shenandoah Valley.

The program allows inmates to go to jobs during the day and then sleep at 
night in a dorm-like setting apart from the regular jail. Kinsey worked 
from 4 p.m. to midnight, two to five days a week.

During his shifts, he distributed crack cocaine, accepted drugs from 
inmates for personal use and falsified drug and alcohol tests for some 
inmates, federal prosecutors said.

The Warren Sheriff's Office asked the FBI to investigate Kinsey later that 
year. The resulting probe led to his indictment in February. He was fired 
around that time.
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