CLEARFIELD – A Coatsville woman accused of smuggling drugs in to an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale waived her right to a preliminary hearing during centralized court Wednesday at the Clearfield County Jail.
Amirrah L. McMillan, 23, of Coatsville has been charged with contraband/controlled substance. Bail was set at $25,000 monetary, which she has posted.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, on May 6 state police were requested to investigate an incident in which an inmate received suspected marijuana and several small pills at SCI Houtzdale. McMillan allegedly concealed the contraband on her person and provided it to the inmate once she was inside the prison.
When state police spoke to a prison official, he suspected McMillan provided the inmate with the contraband. When she was asked, she admitted to smuggling it in to deliver to the inmate. The prison official told state police he had seized some of the drugs, but he suspected the inmate still had more inside of his body that hadn’t been recovered yet.
State police also interviewed McMillan about the incident. She admitted to picking up a package of drugs from an “associate” to deliver to the inmate. She was unaware of the exact contents but did know it contained drugs, namely marijuana.
McMillan admitted to concealing the package of drugs inside of a body cavity to take them into the prison for the inmate. When she provided the package of contraband to the inmate, he swallowed it, she told state police.
