{"id":40546,"date":"2025-09-03T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/drug-laced-books-smuggled-into-14-sc-prisons-ex-corrections-officer-among-3-charged\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:15:01","slug":"drug-laced-books-smuggled-into-14-sc-prisons-ex-corrections-officer-among-3-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/drug-laced-books-smuggled-into-14-sc-prisons-ex-corrections-officer-among-3-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug-Laced Books Smuggled into 14 SC Prisons | Ex-Corrections Officer Among 3 Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTfR9NmJu8A?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Authorities say three individuals \u2014 including a former corrections officer \u2014 are facing serious charges after allegedly mailing books laced with drugs to 14 prisons across South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Corrections, the drug-laced books were dropped off at the Woodruff Post Office and reached at least 20 inmates between March and June 2025. Investigators say 666 sheets of K2-soaked paper and over 240 Suboxone strips were recovered from the packages.<\/p>\n<p>Former inmate Devin Kershaw, ex-officer Shataysha Quneeka Lewis, and Coure Romaine Terry have all been implicated in the scheme. Officials say the thick pages of books made them a preferred method for sneaking in contraband. The USPS is now on high alert as the investigation continues in Spartanburg County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say three individuals \u2014 including a former corrections officer \u2014 are facing serious charges after allegedly mailing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}