Pubdate: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA) Copyright: 2003 Richmond Newspapers Inc. Contact: http://www.timesdispatch.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/365 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. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Stevens