Kyle Tecumseh, 26, a former detention officer with the McClain County Jail, was sentenced last week to serve one year of probation for deprivation of rights under color of law, announced U. S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
On March 22, 2023, Tecumseh was charged in a onecount information, to which he pleaded guilty the following day.
According to court documents and admissions Tecumseh made during his change of plea hearing, on April 21, 2019, Tecumseh was involved with moving a pretrial detainee, B.B., into a jail cell with a senior United Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) gang member whom Tecumseh knew was angry at and posed a danger to B.B.
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