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Texas woman soaked Bibles in drugs and mailed them to inmates

Boing Boing·Ellsworth Toohey·about 1 month ago
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Staff at the Allred Unit, a state prison outside Wichita Falls, Texas, flagged something odd: leather-bound Bibles arriving with pages that felt damp and heavy. The pages tested positive for synthetic cannabinoids. Henna Havila Martinez, also from Wichita Falls, had been soaking the pages in drugs before mailing them to inmates. She used magazines, newspapers, legal mail, and other religious texts — anything that could carry saturated pages through the prison mailroom — to move narcotics into Texas Department of Criminal Justice facilities, according to KARE 11 . Cameras inside an Office Depot in Wichita Falls caught her at a self-checkout kiosk mailing the packages. Investigators counted 360 grams of synthetics across at least three shipments. A search of her Wichita Falls home turned up roughly 4.9 more pounds — loose powder, liquid concentrate, and drug-treated paper sheets. Martinez pleaded guilty to all charges and drew a six-year prison sentence.…

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