NEVADA, Mo. (AP) - A woman has been charged with trying to smuggle drugs to an inmate at a southwest Missouri jail inside a Bible.
The Kansas City Star reports that Ashley Despain, of Nevada, Missouri, was charged this week with delivery or possession of a controlled substance in a jail. No attorney is listed for Despain in online court records. Bond is set at $5,000.
Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher says putting drugs inside a Bible is the “wrong kind of help.” Typically authorities don’t allow people to deliver items to inmates, but exceptions are made for books and the Bible.
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Despain was arrested in the parking lot after a jailer found a small baggie of marijuana wedged between the binding and the Bible’s pages. A passenger was arrested on an outstanding warrant.
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Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com
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