PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man working for a private company that transports prisoners has been indicted on a charge of traveling in interstate commerce to engage in sex with an inmate.
Prosecutors say that in January, 50-year-old Albert Preston Long of Florence allegedly carried one female prisoner and three male prisoners from Murfreesboro, Tenn., to Hopkinsville, where he lodged the three males in the Christian County jail but checked into a motel with the 22-year-old woman. Prosecutors cite a Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit alleging Long, who was wearing a gun, forced the inmate to have sex.
The U.S. attorney's office says in a statement that the same thing happened again after Long and the inmates went on to Paducah.
Prosecutors say Long is also charged with deprivation of rights under color of law, being a felon in possession of a firearm, using the firearm in the course of a crime and forfeiture.
Arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 22 in Paducah.
