Woman tried to smuggle drugs into jail
Posted: 10.20.2009 at 9:54 AM
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CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO (AP) -- A 19-year-old Clovis woman has been arrested after investigators said she tried to smuggle drugs into the Curry County jail.

Marina Lopez was being held on $105,000 bond.

Curry County Sheriff's investigators intercepted telephone calls from the jail and learned inmate Michael Padilla had asked Lopez to deliver narcotics to a detention officer for him.

Authorities say Lopez was arrested Monday when she met a sheriff's investigator who was posing as a detention officer at a Clovis business to deliver the a package containing approximately half a gram of meth, seven grams of marijuana, tobacco and rolling papers.

Lopez also was charged with child abuse because she arrived at the delivery location with her 2- and 3-year old children.

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