YOUNGSTOWN – A federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has handed up a three-count indictment charging Skyler Herring, 27, of Youngstown, with bribery and providing cell phones and tobacco to inmates at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on Hubbard Road while employed there as a correctional officer.

According to the indictment announced this morning by United States Attorney Justin Herdman, Herring is accused of accepting electronic payments via a mobile payment application in exchange for smuggling cell phones and tobacco into the NEOCC between November 2018 and August 2019.

If convicted, the defendant’s sentence will be determined by the Court after review of factors unique to this case, including the defendant’s prior criminal record, if any, the defendant’s role in the offense and the characteristics of the violation.

The investigation was conducted by the Cleveland division of the FBI and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin Seabury Gould.