An inmate accused of having drugs in his cell is currently serving a 20-year sentence and has a prior record of allegedly having prison contraband.
On Dec. 1, Kendall Norris McKinney, 34, was charged in the Superior Court of Guam with promoting prison contraband as a second-degree felony and possession of a Schedule II controlled substance as a third-degree felony.
Court documents state officers with the Guam Police Department responded to the Department of Corrections on Nov. 29 regarding contraband found at the facility. Department of Corrections officers earlier in the day found a broken glass pipe with meth residue, a lighter and cannabis rolled in cigarette paper in McKinney's cell.
In a further search of prison records, The Guam Daily Post found that McKinney has been held at DOC since October 2013 and was serving a 20-year sentence for burglarizing a Dededo residence while armed with a handgun.
According to Post files, McKinney was sought by police in July 2013 for allegedly stealing a television and a laptop computer, before returning to the same residence a month later and stealing a Chevy Trailblazer.
The police report stated a male resident was sleeping when a man wearing a red handkerchief over his face ordered the resident at gunpoint to open his vault. The resident responded that he did not have a vault and was unable to remove his wedding ring when ordered to do so by the intruder. The intruder subsequently ordered the victim into the kitchen after which the intruder grabbed a purse along with credit cards and keys to the Trailblazer.
Further police investigation resulted in witnesses reporting that McKinney was trying to sell the vehicle's rims and other items stolen from the residence.
McKinney went to trial, and he was found guilty. Witnesses testified they saw McKinney driving the Trailblazer and attempting to sell its rims.
Contraband
McKinney was sentenced to 20 years in prison for burglary as a second-degree felony, theft of property as a third-degree felony as a lesser charge and theft by receiving as a second-degree felony.
McKinney's release date is set for Sept. 30, 2033. Since being confined, Post files show McKinney had been accused previously of possessing prison contraband.
McKinney, in March 2016, a few years after sentencing, was found by DOC officers to have a wireless phone in his cell. According to Post files, a corrections officer noted a light fixture in the cell was tampered with and, upon inspection, discovered a white cellphone connected to a cellphone charger hidden in the middle part of the metal frame of the light fixture.
Additionally, in 2019, McKinney was accused of instructing a woman to pick up a pair of shoes for his cellmate at the Chalan Pago church. The shoes were later found to have been delivered to DOC containing two baggies of methamphetamine hidden in the heels of the shoe.
McKinney was not charged in the case. However, his cellmate, Roland Aguon, 20, at the time was charged with promoting prison contraband as a second-degree felony.
McKinney is facing 13 years in prison if convicted of the new charges, according to the Office of the Attorney General.