Ex-deputy who loaned e-cigarette to Sedgwick County Jail inmate placed on diversion
A detention deputy charged with taking a multi-tool that’s also been described as a pocket knife and an electronic cigarette into the Sedgwick County Jail has entered into a diversion agreement with prosecutors, court records show.
Deferred prosecution means the case against Braydon Hoover-Lane will be dismissed if he follows all of the terms of his diversion agreement. Hoover-Lane pleaded not guilty to two counts of trafficking contraband into a correctional facility, waived his jury trial and “entered into a diversion agreement with the State” last week, according to a Sept. 9 journal entry filed with Sedgwick County District Court.
Details of his diversion agreement were not made public. Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Dan Dillon confirmed it exists.
Hoover-Lane will be on diversion for one year, Dillon and Hoover-Lane’s defense attorney told The Eagle.
He was arrested last fall and accused of taking the e-cigarette into the jail and loaning it repeatedly to an inmate over a five-month period ending in November, The Eagle previously reported. He also took a pocket knife described in an arrest affidavit as a “multi-tool with a fixed blade” into the facility, knowing that it was prohibited, according to court records. He was 19 at the time.
Hoover-Lane’s attorney, Shawn Elliott, sent The Eagle a photo of the multi-tool on Wednesday. It’s a credit-card-sized piece of metal with ruler markings, can and bottle cap openers and other cutouts. Part of one side has a serrated edge.
Knives and smoking devices are among items that are legal to possess outside of the jail but are banned in the buildings.
Hoover-Lane resigned from his post at the jail on Jan. 7, the Sheriff’s Office said previously.
This story was originally published September 14, 2021 at 11:10 AM.
