He entered a plea agreement in September 2022 on two lesser counts of introducing contraband into a county detention facility, the Internal Affairs report and court records said. Kirkland was arrested on felony charges of armed trafficking charges. He asked for an attorney and said nothing more. In an interview with the Violent Crimes Division, Kirkland said he didn’t want the incident to be a “blemish” in his career and said he “was a very giving and trusting person, which is what put him in the situation he was in,” the Internal Affairs report said. The woman who met with Kirkland said she gave him $900, albeit reluctantly because he was in uniform and she did not know she was meeting with a deputy, the Internal Affairs report said. He stopped at a gas station afterward, and investigators found that Kirkland tossed a bag with cigarettes and 23 grams of methamphetamine in the trash can, the Internal Affairs report said. Kirkland met with a woman for the deal at a McDonald’s. The inmate said in a separate monitored call in April that Kirkland would be easy to spot for the person who was supposed to meet with him for the deal because Kirkland would be wearing a “Halloween costume,” meaning his Sheriff’s Office uniform, Internal Affairs documents said. The jail’s surveillance cameras showed the relative arrive with three small Domino’s Pizza boxes that Kirkland eventually took in his lunch bag, the affidavit said. The inmate said there needed to be “3 bucks or 3 bills” in the sandwich for the “green lives matter people,” meaning $300 for Kirkland hidden in it, a probable cause affidavit said. In March 2021, a few weeks before Kirkland’s arrest, an inmate arranged for another inmate’s relative to pick up “a sandwich, a bowl and some wings” from Domino’s Pizza, which were delivered to the jail on Gun Club Road in Kirkland’s name. Inmates in some of the calls covertly referred to Kirkland by saying “Costco brand” in the phone calls, an Internal Affairs report said.
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