MAURY COUNTY, Tenn. (WZTV) — A Maury County corrections officer was charged with a federal indictment Monday for obstructing an investigation into allegations that he sexually abused an inmate in his custody.
The Columbia, Tenn. man, 31-year-old James Stewart Thomas, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on one count of falsification of records.
Thomas was arrested at his home early Monday by FBI agents and will appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge Monday afternoon.
According to the indictment, Thomas wrote an official report in which he falsely claimed that he had reported to two Maury County Jail supervisors that an inmate had made sexual advances toward him while the inmate was in his custody at a hospital.
Thomas' false claims were in response to allegations that Thomas had nonconsensual sexual contact with a female inmate in his custody.
The report also falsely claimed that those two Maury County Jail supervisors both advised Thomas not to write a report about the alleged sexual advances by the inmate, and the report left out that he had a sexual relationship with the inmate after the inmate’s release from the custody of the Maury County Jail.
Thomas will face a sentence up to 20 years in prison if he is convicted.
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