State Police : Hartford Woman Tried to Mail Drugs to Somers Prison Inmate

SOMERS, CT — A Hartford woman is accused to trying to smuggle a highly addictive pain drug into a prison, state police said.

On June 7, troopers were dispatched to Osborn Correctional Institution to investigate narcotics found in a piece of mail addressed to an inmate, according to arrest warrants. The contraband was four strips of suboxone, a pain medication also used to suppress opiate addiction, according to drugabuse.com.

Corrections officers were screening the mail on May 25 when they noticed that a card sent to inmate Hariel Figueroa, an inmate at Osbrorn Correctional Facility, had been tampered with, according to arrest warrants.

The drug strips were hidden on the card, according to the warrants.

Figueroa was charged with being an accessory to convey an unauthorized item into a prison.

The sender of the card, Lucia Figueroa, 49, of Hartford, was charged with that crime, the actual conveyance and the illegal sale of drugs for the incident, state police said.

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