EX-GUARD ADMITS GUILT IN PRISON DRUG CASE

SACRAMENTO -- A former state correctional officer pleaded guilty
Tuesday to offering to sell controlled substances to a prisoner and
to possessing a deadly weapon on prison grounds without
authorization, according to a Sacramento County District Attorney's
Office news release.

Wallace Laffitte Jr. was tape-recorded while offering to sell
methamphetamine and marijuana to an inmate at California State
Prison, Sacramento, for $500. When arrested later by special agents
in the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Internal
Affairs Division, Laffitte had the money, which was marked, according
to the release.

Laffitte, who had a 9-inch folding knife when arrested, admitted to
selling methamphetamine and marijuana to inmates for almost a year to
support his crack cocaine addiction, the release states.

Laffitte was fired from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

On Sept. 26, Laffitte will be sentenced to a stipulated three-year
term in state prison, according to the release.