Ex-corrections officer gets probation

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Michael F. Palumbo

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — A fired Trumbull County jail corrections officer, who falsified a document relating to an inmate who later died in the jail, was sentenced to two years’ probation.

Michael F. Palumbo, 40, of Russell Avenue, Niles, also was sentenced to 90 days in jail, but all 90 days were suspended.

Investigators said Palumbo tampered with jail records April 27, 2009, regarding inmate Adam N. Border, 24, of Vienna, on the day Palumbo booked him into jail in 2008.

According to a letter from Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins and Sheriff Thomas Altiere, jail officials discovered in June 2009 that Palumbo altered the booking information he recorded Jan. 12, 2008, to indicate that Border was under the influence of drugs the day he was booked into jail.

Originally, Palumbo indicated that Border was not under the influence of drugs that day, the letter says.

Border’s family has filed a $750,000 lawsuit against the county, alleging that corrections officers and medical personnel failed to take the proper steps to treat Border’s overdose.