CHESAPEAKE, Va. — An inmate convicted in 2015 of helping to lead a street gang pleaded guilty to paying a Chesapeake sheriff’s deputy to smuggle contraband into a jail.
According to court documents, 34-year-old Jermarrieo Javone Stigger, once identified as a leader of the Imperial Gangsta Bloods, paid now-former Deputy Jenis Leroy Plummer to smuggle heroin, cocaine, cell phones, e-cigarettes, and other contraband into the Chesapeake City Jail from July 2017 to December 2018.
Stigger pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right and faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced in June.
Plummer previously pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced to 2-and-a-half years in prison.
Stigger previously pleaded guilty in 2015 to conspiring to distribute narcotics and for possessing guns in the furtherance of drug trafficking. He received a 35-year sentence to federal prison.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
