Nevada DOC Lt. Accused in Drug Set-Up, Assault of Sgt.

[Greg]

Jonathan Humbert, Reporter
Department of Corrections Lieutenant Accused in Drug Set-Up, Assault | KLAS TV (Las Vegas)

Oct 4, 2007 08:31 AM

A department of corrections lieutenant is under arrest, accused of being the mastermind behind an elaborate drug set-up and assault. The target? A fellow officer.

Irvin Blake was a rising member of the Nevada Department of Corrections. Promoted twice in the last four years, Blake is now sitting in a jail cell.

Blake stands accused of asking an inmate to beat up another corrections officer and frame him. He was once in charge of keeping inmates in line. Now Irvin Blake is an inmate in a bizarre case of revenge.

Blake was arrested Wednesday after suspicions he had asked an inmate at Southern Nevada Correction Center in Jean to assault a sergeant at the prison.

Blake was hired in October 1993 and had been promoted in 2003 and again recently to the rank of lieutenant. But according to the arrest report, obtained exclusively by Eyewitness News, the twice-promoted lieutenant was facing a demotion soon. And he wanted retribution on the sergeant who ratted him out for an unknown infraction.

The report paints a disturbing plan hatched by Blake to clear his own name by asking an inmate to beat up the sergeant. Then Blake would place controlled substances in his car and then call highway patrol once the sergeant went home for the night.

But it never happened. Once investigators found out, Blake admitted to the whole plan before his paid-off inmate could follow through.

The Department of Corrections had little comment Wednesday, other than to say Blake had been officially terminated.

Blake's charges -- oppression under the color of office and misconduct of a public officer, are Class D and E felonies. If convicted, Blake could face up a combined eight years in prison and fines of $10,000.

Email your comments to Reporter Jonathan Humbert.

[Greg]

What a total POS! If this guy gets convicted and sentenced to prison, he'll almost certainly be sent to a different state.

[AZCorrections84]

Different state, or involuntary protective segregation for his entire sentence.

[robeans]

Oh I do hope he comes here, we have a special place for people like him.

[keykeeper]

It's a POS like this that portrays a negative image about corrections to the public.

[conkicker241]

I hate to hear that about any officer but it happens everywhere. Bad apples make us all look bad. Jeolousy, is a bitch. I had applications and Interviews set up in Nevada. I sitll think about going there. But guess I will always be a Okie. To many family ties here.


It's pretty sad, we have to protect ourselves fromt he thugs. And crooked staff also. Makes you wonder why we ever decided on this career choice.

[Correctionsguy]

You'd be sujrprised how many POS's and turds there are lurking among the ranks of CO's, Sgt's, Lt's etc. It sickens me everytime I have to crack open a case file and see some criminal that slipped through the cracks that has been caught doing something like this stupid Lt. This tarnishes all of our badges.