An Alabama state prison employee has been charged with two crimes after authorities say she planned to smuggle drugs into Kilby Correctional Facility.

Tyree Lynette Hoyle, 46, was arrested Wednesday on charges of use of officials position for personal gain and attempt to distribute drugs.

Hoyle was a correctional security guard at Kilby when the alleged crimes happened.

Charging documents state Hoyle on Nov. 30, 2023, conspired with a state prison inmate and a former ADOC correctional security officer to deliver drugs inside the prison.

Hoyle, records state, met the former employee at the Montgomery Zoo and received three contraband packages containing marijuana and suboxone with the intent to smuggle the narcotics into Kilby.

Hoyle was booked into the Montgomery County Detention Center at 6:53 p.m. Wednesday and remains held on bonds totaling $30,000.

ADOC officials said Hoyle resigned from her position.

The investigation is ongoing, and more charges could be filed.

Hoyle is the third state prison employee arrested in the past week.

On Thursday, April 18, 39-year-old Lashonnon Zibrica Belser was charged with third-degree promoting prison contraband. Belser was taken into custody at Ventress Correctional Facility in Barbour County where she was a correctional security guard.

Charging documents state she delivered cell phone chargers and food to an inmate at the facility.

On Friday, April 19, Limestone Correctional Facility Warden Chadwick Ray Crabtree, 45, and his wife, 55-year-old Melissa Kay Crabtree, 55, were arrested on drug charges.

Chad Crabtreet became warden there in 2022 and had been with the ADOC for more than 20 years.