Sheriff: Woman tried to smuggle meth to inmate in Bible
TUPELO, Miss. — Today's Bible lesson: It's a bad idea to use the good book to smuggle drugs into jail.
The Bible in question was dropped off Thursday for an inmate convicted last week of methamphetamine trafficking and awaiting transfer to state prison, a Mississippi sheriff said.
"We search every item that is brought into the jail, and the property officer noticed something wrong. There was a bulge in the back cover of the Bible," Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. "We cut it open and found a powdery substance."
A local lab identified methamphetamine and said it couldn't identify a second substance, so a sample was sent to the state crime lab, Ezell said.
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