Woman Charged with Attempting to Smuggle Drugs into Jail

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(3:15 p.m.)

A woman faces charges after she was caught bringing drugs into the Central Nova Scotia Correction Facility (CNSCF) in Burnside.

Yesterday at 1:24 p.m., police responded to the CNSCF after staff at the facility located drugs hidden in clothing she was delivering to the jail. Officers arrested the woman without incident and seized a quantity of marijuana, hydromorphone and ecstasy.

A 28-year-old woman from Shad Bay faces charges of drug trafficking and is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court on May 16, 2012