"Whitmore, who has worked at Crossroads since October 2018 and whose yearly salary is about $68,500, is accused of taking 130 payments totaling more than $11,000 on his Cash App account between February 2023 and April 2025 to bring in items like pot, rolling papers and tobacco. He doled out a few hundred dollars at the time, with records showing he made about 124 calls to at least four contraband phones inside the juvenile facility, the city Department of Investigation alleges."
"Whitmore would get and send messages in code - "za" for marijuana, "fronto" for tobacco leaves - often conveyed in the subject lines of $1 Cash App transactions, according to a criminal complaint. He also took steps to avoid detection, it was alleged. On Feb. 17, 2023, after Whitmore got contraband delivered to him by Uber, he asked the detainee, "It's packed right? I won't [have] to do too much?" according to the complaint."
Three youth development specialists at the Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brooklyn — Evan Hamllton, 34; Linard King, 41; and Dra-Quan Whitmore, 34 — were charged with federal bribery conspiracy for sneaking contraband to detained teenagers. The arrests raise the total number of staffers arrested on contraband-related charges at the facility to nine since June 2024. Whitmore is accused of receiving 130 Cash App payments totaling more than $11,000 and making about 124 calls to contraband phones while using coded messages and alleged steps to avoid detection.
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