{"id":3993,"date":"2025-10-15T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3993\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:41:09","slug":"corrections-officer-fired-charged-for-allegedly-giving-inmate-chicken-wings-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3993\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrections officer fired, charged for allegedly giving inmate chicken wings for money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Travis County<\/a> corrections officer has been fired and charged for allegedly providing an inmate with chicken wings in exchange for money.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">25-year-old Amos Nyanway has been charged with contraband in a correctional facility, a Class B misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Travis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says that on Aug. 21, a corrections officer with the Security Threat Intelligence Unit learned Nyanway may have provided contraband to an inmate for monetary compensation while investigating an unrelated matter.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The contraband was chicken wings, says TCSO.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">An investigation was immediately initiated and Nyanway was placed on administrative duty during the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He was fired on Oct. 14. He had been with the sheriff&#8217;s office since last June.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Nyanway is in the Travis County Jail as of 1:30 p.m. Oct. 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">In Texas, a Class B misdemeanor is punishable by up to six months in jail and\/or a fine of up to $2,000.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Sheriff Sally Hernandez said in a statement:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I\u2019m disappointed that a Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Office Corrections Officer made such a foolish decision. We hold our employees to a high standard of conduct and accountability. We simply cannot tolerate contraband of any type being brought into our secure facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from the Travis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Travis County jail records, and Texas statutes.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/unusual\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unusual<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A Travis County corrections officer has been fired and charged for allegedly providing an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,394,216,4487,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-3993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-travis-county","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-unusual","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}