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Scheme To Deliver Drugs Inside Warren County Jail Nets Pair Charges

WARREN, Pa. — A drugs-in-underwear delivery scheme has resulted in additional charges for two Warren County Jail inmates.

Zachary A. Smith, 33, of Wilderness Park, Clarendon, is charged with two counts of possession with intent to deliver; contraband; and criminal use of a communications facility.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, Smith helped Amanda Brown, 44, of Sheffield, who was charged previously, retrieve a prescription of suboxone.

Brown then allegedly took the drugs, sewn into underwear, to the jail on June 21, gave them to another person, who has not been charged, to be given to inmate Bruce D. Campbell Jr., 42, of Cottage Avenue, Sheffield.

Campbell is charged with five counts of possession with intent to deliver; four counts of contraband; and criminal use of a communications facility.

The initial delivery did not go into the jail because the person who took the whites in was told Campbell was not eligible to receive them, according to the affidavit.

The woman went back outside, spoke with Brown, then took the whites back in to be delivered to another inmate, according to the affidavit.

The whites were then searched by jail personnel and found to contain items sewn into the crotches of three pairs of underwear, according to the affidavit. The plastic items were suspected of containing suboxone.

According to the affidavits, Brown had delivered whites containing suboxone to inmates two previous times in June.

Smith and Campbell were arraigned on Wednesday before District Judge Raymond Zydonik. Bail was set at $50,000 each.

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