BREAKING NEWS: Two Jeffrey Epstein guards are arrested for ‘failing to check on him’ the night the millionaire pedophile killed himself in his New York jail cell
Two correctional officers who were responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he killed himself in his New York jail cell have been arrested.
The two federal Bureau of Prisons employees were taken into custody early Tuesday, sources told the New York Times.
They are expected to be charged in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan later on Tuesday over their alleged failure to check on the millionaire pedophile in his cell.
The officers on Epstein’s unit at the federal jail are suspected of failing to check on him every half-hour, as required, and of fabricating log entries to claim they had.
Two guards who were on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his New York jail cell have been arrested
The pending charges are the first in connection with Epstein’s death after he took his own life in August at the Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting trial on charges of sexually abusing teenage girls.
Both guards had been working overtime because of staffing shortages when Epstein was found.
The two officers were placed on administrative leave while the FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general investigated the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death.
The city’s medical examiner ruled Epstein’s death a suicide, but that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theories.