POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A nurse was arrested after deputies said she gave a cellphone to a Polk County Jail inmate and wrote love letters to another inmate.
Suzanne Gracia, of Avon Park, was arrested Thursday.
Gracia had worked for Corizon Health since 2014.
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Deputies said the phone was found on inmate Julio Ruiz on May 21.
Ruiz told deputies Gracia brought him the phone, according to a report.
The phone was used by inmates Fernando Olvera-Gonzalez and Simon Ramos, deputies said.
Olvera-Gonzalez also showed deputies love letters that he claimed were given to him by Gracia. In the letters, "Sue" mentions how her husband is in prison, and told Olvera-Gonzalez to find her when he is released from jail.
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Gracia admitted to investigators that she wrote the letters and had brought the cell phone into the jail and gave it to Olvera-Gonzalez.
"A cellphone in the jail presents a security risk and can ultimately place anyone in the jail in danger. As a nurse, she's supposed to provide care to the inmates, not phones,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. “We're obviously none too-pleased with her behavior, and I suspect Corizon isn't either."
Gracia is facing two counts of introduction of contraband and two counts of interference with county prisoners.
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