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Woman accused of trying to smuggle drugs into prison

SOMERSET TWP, Somerset County — State prison officials stuck a pin in a Butler County woman’s alleged balloon smuggling plan to get drugs to her inmate husband, authorities said.

Her high hopes deflated, Tiffanny N. Harris, 26, of Butler Township this week joined her spouse behind bars — but at different lockups.

Harris is at the Somerset County Prison on $50,000 bail. She is charged with a pair of felonies — possession with intent to deliver drugs and attempting to smuggle drugs to an inmate.

State police said she showed up Monday at the State Correctional Institution-Somerset visitation room. There, according to court documents, she tried to pass on Suboxone strips to Adam Paul Harris, 33.

Suboxone is a narcotic medication used to treat opiate addiction.

The couple’s purported smuggling conduit was a strawberry milk jug, police said.

The scheme involved Tiffany Harris putting four balloons with Suboxone strips into the milk container she bought from the visitors’ room vending machine.

She was to share the milk with her husband, who would swallow the balloons while drinking the beverage. Later, he would allegedly pass the balloons and consume the drugs.

But the plan soured when guards confiscated the milk and found the evidence.

The couple unintentionally tipped off prison officials of their plan. Investigators said the pair previously discussed the plot during recorded calls on the prison’s phone system.

Police later filed multiple felonies against Adam Harris stemming from the failed plan.

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