Three Hays State Prison inmates alongside a Valdosta State Prison inmate and an accomplice have all been indicted on federal drug trafficking and bribery charges.

Jeffery Deroy Lewis, an inmate at Valdosta State Prison, along with Octavius Henry, Alexis Jay Stokley, and Khalid Eugene Mouton, inmates at Hays State Prison, and an accomplice, Jessica Corley Stokley, are charged with conspiring to smuggle narcotics into Hay State Prison by bribing corrections officer Voltaire Peter Pierre.

In Federal Court, prosecutors said that the inmates allegedly smuggled drugs and contraband into the prison by using hidden cellphones to coordinate the crime.  The group is accused of smuggling methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana, along with other contraband into Hays State Prison from June 2018 through October 2018. Using contraband cell phones and coded email messages sent via the prison email system they arranged for drugs and other contraband to be dropped at the home of Pierre, a Hays State Prison corrections officer who later smuggled the packages into prison.