After pleading a guilty plea to mailing synthetic cannabinoids and other drugs into facilities run by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, a Wichita Falls (Texas, United States) woman was given a six-year jail sentence, according to authorities.
Before sending the parcels to prisoners in state custody, Henna Havila Martinez acknowledged hiding the drugs in Bibles, other holy texts, magazines, newspapers, and legal mail, according to a press release, KHOU 11 Reports.
The Allred Unit staff found leather-bound Bibles with excessively saturated pages that subsequently tested positive for synthetic cannabinoids, according to officials, which led to the discovery of the scheme.
The parcels were tracked by investigators to an Office Depot location in Wichita Falls, where surveillance footage revealed Martinez mailing packages to prisoners using a self-checkout station. She was seen delivering at least three parcels totaling 360 grams of synthetic cannabis, authorities said.
Around 4.9 pounds of synthetic cannabis in various forms, including liquid, powder, and paper sheets, were found in her home.
