Former Correctional officer to spend more than 6 years in prison following drug conviction

Henry Guice/Source: Elmore County Jail

A former Correctional officer will spent more than 6 years in prison following a drug conviction in a federal courtroom.

Acting United States Attorney Kevin Davidson tells Action 8 News that 46-year-old Henry Guice, Jr., a former ADOC correctional officer, was sentenced to 75 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to bring illegal drugs into a prison.

Federal inmates are not eligible for parole.

Guice was a Correctional Officer at Staton Correction Facility in Elmore. Guice voluntarily resigned from the department after his arrest on charges of trafficking a controlled substance, promoting prison contraband and use of position for personal gain.

The recovered contraband included approximately 145.8 gross grams of a crystal-like substance.

During his plea hearing in May of this year, Guice admitted that he possessed methamphetamine with the intent to distribute the illegal drug and that he conspired with another individual for that purpose.

A federal grand jury also indicted 48-year-old Brad Elliot Gordon, who was an inmate at Staton in June 2023, for his alleged role in the conspiracy.

Gordon’s trial is scheduled for February 3, 2025.

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

The Drug Enforcement Administration and the ADOC Law Enforcement Services Division investigated this case, which Assistant United States Attorney Mark E. Andreu prosecuted.