People hide drugs in incredibly creative places. Airbags, cat statues, hangers, submarines. So we're a little surprised (but also amused) that it has taken drug smugglers until now to try children's coloring books? Well, until now to get caught doing it, we should say.
Three inmates at the Cape May County Correctional Center and two woman outside the prison were busted this week by New Jersey cops for slipping the perscrption drug Suboxone into the jail. And even the cops are impressed by their scheme.
"In my 38 years of law enforcement, I've never seen anything like this," Cape May County Sheriff Gary Schaffer said yesterday.
Basically the women on the outside were turning the drug, normally used to treat opium addiction, into a paste and smearing it onto coloring book pages before sending them into the big house. They even wrote "To Daddy" on one sheet to keep investigators on their toes. We're assuming that inmates could simply eat the paper to get their high on.
And the drug ring would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a pesky prison snitch who alerted a corrections officer to the scam. Once they'd been tipped off prison officials spent two months of sifting through inmate mail before they spotted the drug-laced pages and broke the ring up.
