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Kitchen worker arrested for smuggling contraband into Mississippi jail

By Sethanie Smith Mar 13, 2025 | 3:17 PM

PEARL RIVER COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) – Pearl River County deputies arrested a Contract Kitchen employee for allegedly bringing contraband in the jail and distributing it to inmates, who were trustee kitchen workers.

Investigators identified the Contract Kitchen worker as Stacey Sistrunk, 56, of Slidell, Louisiana.

Arrests warrants were obtained for Sistrunk and inmate Talafarrow Keyes, Sr., 45, of Gulfport. They were taken into custody on March 8 while investigators searched the kitchen of the Pearl River County Jail.

According to deputies, investigators located contraband items that two other inmates were in possession of. They were identified as Kewane Latiker, 31, of Jackson, and Jeremy King, 33, of Biloxi.

Sistrunk was booked into the Pearl River County Criminal Justice Facility as an inmate. Deputies said the three trustees were removed from trustee status and placed into the Pearl River County Criminal Justice Facility. The trustees were subsequently transported back to the State Prison System.