Elizabeth Eaton was charged with drug possession.
FARMINGTON – An 18-year-old Farmington woman was arrested over the weekend for trying to smuggle illegal pills to an inmate at the Franklin County Detention Center.
About 3 p.m. Saturday, Farmington Police Officer Bridgette Dellarma received a call from the jail saying that corrections officers were suspicious that Elizabeth Eaton was trying to sneak in cigarettes to an inmate there, said Farmington Police Lieutenant Jack Peck.
When Dellarma arrived, she confronted Eaton, who was found with 10 green pills in a baggie hidden under her shirt. Eaton then admitted to having planned to sneak them in to an unidentified inmate.
Peck said he was unsure at this time what exactly the pills were, but Dellarma charged the woman with felony possession of schedule W drugs, which encompasses a slew of illegal drugs including cocaine. That offense is punishable by up to five years and, according to Peck , is the “most serious class” of all drug possessions.
Eaton was also hit with another felony charge of trafficking in prison contraband, also punishable by up to five years in prison. She will make her first appearance in court on Sept. 11, Peck said.
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