Corrections officer charged with sale, distribution of marijuana

LAWRENCEVILLE – Tarish Lennette Rhodes, 42, from Alberta, Virginia is charged with sale, distribution of more than 1 ounce but less than 5 pounds of marijuana on March 4.

Captain Brad Evans with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office said Sergeant Investigator C. T. Sasser worked with the Department of Corrections Drug Investigation Team on the case. Rhodes, an officer at Lawrenceville Correctional Center, was suspected of bringing contraband inside the prison. The DOC investigators advised she had a post office box at the Alberta Post Office and was receiving packages in that post office box then smuggling those items into the prison for inmates.