I have visited inmates at the Latah County Jail. There is no way for a visitor to get anything like this to an inmate.
A 36-year-old Harvard woman faces three additional drug charges after deputies at the Latah County Jail allegedly seized methamphetamine inside a shampoo bottle and about five grams of heroin from her sock while she was in custody.
According to court documents, Pennie Reeves-Arnett, already faced three counts of delivering methamphetamine and two counts of delivering heroin after she allegedly sold the drugs in January to a confidential informant working with the Latah County Sheriff’s Office on three separate occasions.
Reeves-Arnett was originally arrested Aug. 15 and booked into the Latah County Jail on the five felony charges.
According to court documents, Aug. 16, when deputies allegedly found the heroin in her sock, Reeves-Arnett told deputies she found the heroin on the floor while in the shower and had intended on turning it in, but lost it while drying her hair after the shower.
Four days after the heroin was found on Reeves-Arnett, deputies received an anonymous call stating there was methamphetamine in the female cell at the jail.
After reviewing surveillance footage from inside the cell, deputies noticed women in the cell drinking from a shampoo bottle, which was sitting on the end of Reeves-Arnett’s bed.
The bottle was confiscated and a presumptive test indicated a positive presence of methamphetamine.
Officers are still investigating how the controlled substance was brought into the jail. However, according to court documents, a jailer told deputies she thought “(the contraband) was inside of Pennie” when she was booked into the jail.
In addition to her five original felony drug charges, Reeves-Arnett faces one count of possessing major contraband within a correctional facility, and two counts of controlled substance delivery, all felonies.
A preliminary hearing for Reeves-Arnett is set for Thursday.
Via the Daily News