Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Comstock, NEW YORK

Updated to show sentencing. Check out the URL. About explains it all.

Jan 9, 2007 - Cassandra Jones, 42, third grade teacher [school unknown at present], was arrested while trying to smuggle drugs and and a scalpel hidden in a tampon at Great Meadow state prison. She was visiting her 30-year-old husband who is serving time for a New York City murder.
Full name: Cassandra D. Jones

Mar 20 - Jones pleaded guilty in January to third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony. She will be formally sentenced later this month. It's expected to be three years with two years probation. The tampon contained a scapel, .5 grams of heroin and some prescription pills

"She'd been doing this for a while and we believe she'd been doing it at other prisons," Washington County District Attorney Kevin Kortright said.
TT - It'll be a while till the couple is reunited. He's serving 25 years to life for convictions in 2000 for second-degree murder, and weapons and drug charges. Kortright said Jones will be able to use her training as a teacher in the prison system."She can teach in the prison system now," Kortright said.

TT - What a happy thought. You cannot make this stuff up.