A state corrections officer is under arrest after authorities say he tried to smuggle drugs into the prison where he worked.

Charlie LaBranden Townsend, 28, was arrested Saturday, the Alabama Department of Corrections announced Tuesday.

He worked at Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery until his resignation at the time of his arrest.

He is charged with trafficking methamphetamine, use of position for personal gain and promoting prison contraband.

ADOC investigators interviewed Townsend and he confessed to bringing in contraband for an inmate, said prison spokeswoman Kelly Betts.

Charging documents against Townsend state he was in possession of 88 gross grams of methamphetamine, 104 gross grams of fentanyl, 30 gross grams of marijuana, 208 grams of a synthetic drug and multiple Xanax pills.

Warrants state he was to receive $1,500 in exchange for providing an unnamed inmate with the illegal drugs.

Townsend was booked into the Montgomery County Detention Center on bonds totaling $775,000. He was released from the jail later Saturday, jail records show.

Betts said the arrest is a result of the ADOC Contraband Interdiction Program, which uses “cutting-edge search and security technologies in an ongoing effort to control the influx of prison contraband.”

“The presence of illegal drugs is a growing challenge faced by correctional systems across the country,’’ ADOC Commissioner John Hamm said in a prepared statement.

“Criminals go to significant lengths to bypass security systems and introduce drugs and other types of illegal contraband into facilities. The ADOC is committed to enforcing its zero-tolerance policy on contraband, even when it comes to policing our own.”