Larry Krewson, a corrections officer at South Central Correctional Center in Licking, was recently selected the Missouri Department of Corrections’ August employee of the month.
Krewson received the award after observing illegal activity by a female visitor. Krewson spotted the person spitting balloons into a bottle of orange juice, then give it to a prisoner who drank from the same bottle and swallowed the contraband.
The offender was placed on dry cell status, and the balloons filled with contraband were successfully retrieved. The visitor, who had falsified her identity, was arrested by local authorities. She was on probation for a felony warrant.
“Because of your attention to detail, contraband was kept out of the institution and a wanted person arrested, thereby protecting the safety and security of offenders and staff as well as the public in general,” Larry Crawford, director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, told Krewson in a letter. “Your ability to accept a diversity of job assignments and perform them at a high level benefits South Central Correctional Center and the department as a whole.”
Krewson, who lives in Licking, has been employed with the Department of Corrections for seven years.