34-year-old Katherine Smothers sentenced to 3 years in federal prison for mailing drug-laced letters to a detainee in Otay Mesa, San Diego.

34-year-old Katherine Smothers was sentenced to three years in federal prison for mailing drug-laced letters containing fentanyl and methamphetamine to an inmate at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa, San Diego County, between December 2022 and April 2023. She used false names and return addresses to conceal her identity and communicated with the inmate using coded conversations about the letters' arrival.

May 10, 2024
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