Police and Senators Need to Find Corrupt Insiders, Expose, Remove, and Punish Them

It’s an inside job. Otherwise, Merlin the Magician is working for the inmates of the Guam Department of Corrections.

Following an early-May federal arrest of Edward Glen Demapan – a DOC inmate serving a life sentence for murdering a man decades ago – DOC officers found a trove of contraband on a rooftop vent above one of the buildings at Post 16. That is the general population area, where Mr. Demapan was housed prior to his federal arrest on drug trafficking charges. (Mr. Demapan has since been indicted in two separate drug trafficking conspiracies, both of which accuse him of leading drug trafficking organizations that allegedly dealt thousands of pounds of meth, fentanyl, and the even deadlier drug N-Pyrrolidino Protonitazene).

Somehow, someone was able to get on to that roof with dozens of propane and butane tanks, knives, drugs, drug tools, cables, scores of tools including a heavy duty drill, scales, scores of sharp-edged objects aside from knives, dozens of cell phones, brass knuckles, and more.

Somehow, someone was able to get all this contraband through the one entrance and exit to the Mangilao compound. While it’s quite possible that civilians with strong arms and good aim could have thrown many of these items into the prison facility from the road, you’d have to be an Olympic athlete to have thrown two multi-gallon propane tanks that far. Those tanks aren’t even used anywhere in the prison, according to a DOC source.

Those tanks, and I’ll bet most of all that contraband found after Mr. Demapan’s arrest, were walked through the front door of the Mangilao correctional facility.

And how about all the contraband that hasn’t been found yet? What if there’s a loaded gun in there? They’ve found one before.

Only a fool would believe that these crimes did not require the full and active participation of several DOC corrections officers and management.

According to one of the indictments against Mr. Demapan, one DOC officer participated in one of the drug trafficking conspiracies. Following the early May arrest of Mr. Demapan and that one officer – Trevor Wolford – Mr. Demapan was moved to Post 6, which is a highly secured area of the prison. DOC officers again found cell phones, drugs, and other contraband in his cell. That was AFTER Mr. Wolford no longer had access to Mr. Demapan. Then, just last week on June 10, officers AGAIN found cell phones, drugs, and other contraband in his cell.

Several corrections officers at the Guam Department of Corrections are bringing to dangerous inmates contraband that is proliferating the drug trade throughout the island, and that places the lives of other inmates and corrections officers in danger every day.

Director of corrections Fred Bordallo described the process every person goes through when entering and leaving the Mangilao facility. The protocol makes sense. Generally, every person who enters is patted down and must log everything they bring on their person in at a main control room. And what they leave with needs to match what was logged. He even assured us that the schedule of who mans the control room is switched up so that people don’t know when their friends would be manning the security gate.

Except the managers.

In order for all these drugs, weapons, and tools to make it into the prison … in order for inmates to be able to run entire drug conspiracies from Houston to Guam from the confines of the Guam prison, several corrections officers working in several areas and under the command and protection of members of corrections management have to be involved. There’s no other way this could physically happen.

Trevor Wolford is a patsy. He is the scapegoat whom the bigger fish have offered up on a platter. Others are involved. And a full criminal and legislative investigation needs to start to expose these people, fire them, and send them into the very prison they use their current power to exploit. We posit this: follow the money.