Woman sentenced for mailing drug-laced letters to jail
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A woman who tried to smuggle drugs into a San Diego County jail was sentenced Monday to three years behind bars.
Katherine Smothers, 34, was arrested last April after authorities discovered she had tried to send drug-laced letters to an individual at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa, according to a release from the county sheriff’s department Friday.
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The letters were intercepted by deputies at the sheriff’s mail processing center between December 2022 and April 2023. They said they noticed that the letters appeared to have been soaked with an unknown liquid and then dried.
Authorities later found they had been soaked in liquid methamphetamine and fentanyl, the release said.
Smothers was arrested in Santee following an investigation by the sheriff’s department and the Homeland Security Investigations’ Fentanyl Abatement and Suppression Team. She was charged with bringing drugs into a jail, trying to sell a controlled substance to an individual in custody and conspiracy to commit a crime.
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