Three more staffers at a juvenile detention center in Brooklyn are accused of taking bribes to sneak in contraband to the teenage detainees they were supposed to be supervising.
Evan Hamllton, 34, Linard King, 41, and Dra-Quan Whitmore, 34 — all “youth development specialists” at the Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brooklyn — were charged Wednesday with federal bribery conspiracy charges, bringing the tally to nine staffers arrested on contraband-related charges since June 2024.
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 dollar

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