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You too old to be this stupid…
WEST CHESTER, Pa. – April 25, 2012 – A man from Maryland, and a female inmate
from Pa., have been arrested for allegedly smuggling drugs into the Chester County
Prison. In a news release issued on Wednesday, District Attorney Tom Hogan ann-
ounced the arrests of 70-year-old Dennis D. Leffew of Elkton, Md. and 25-year-old
Jessica Williams, a prison inmate. Leffew is charged with delivering the drug Subo-
xone to Williams, an inmate at Chester County Prison, on four occasions between
February 8, 2012, and April 11, 2012, Hogan said. The two face charges of conspiracy,
delivering contraband to a prison inmate, drug delivery, and related charges. Accord-
ing to investigators, prison officials obtained four envelopes with an orange strip lo-
cated below the postage stamp. Medical personnel examined the strip and, authorities
said, it contained Suboxone, a Schedule III narcotic. Additionally, Hogan said, Leffew
visited and called Williams on a regular basis. In recorded phone calls, investigators
say Leffew and Williams discussed how to obtain, transport, and deliver Suboxone into
the prison by placing the Suboxone under the return address decal and the oversized
postage stamp. Detectives searched Leffew’s home, Hogan said, and allegedly discovered
letters from Williams to Leffew describing from whom to purchase the drug and how to
ship the drug into Chester County Prison. The detectives also allegedly seized more Subo-
xone. “If these two criminals spent as much time and creativity on doing something use-
ful as they did on sneaking drugs into a prison, they might be gainfully employed. Instead,
they both are looking at felony convictions,” Hogan said in a statement. Suboxone’s pres-
cribed use is to treat opiate addiction. However, Hogan said, it is often used alone or in com-
bination with other drugs by drug users to get high.
