Remaining charges against Albuquerque jail guard dropped

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped remaining charges against a former Albuquerque jail guard who was accused of raping inmates. Earlier this month jurors found Torry Chambers not guilty of three counts of criminal sexual penetration but they could not come to a unanimous decision on three additional charges of criminal sexual penetration. The Albuquerque Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2fkKYRV ) that those remaining charges were dismissed Monday. Chambers is still is a sergeant at the Metropolitan Detention Center, but wasn't allowed to have contact with inmates while his case was pending Chambers was accused of five counts of criminal sexual penetration against three women inmates between 2008 and 2010. He also faced one charge that he facilitated the rape of a female inmate by a male inmate.