SEATTLE — A woman soaked paper with methamphetamine (search), fashioned it to look like a greeting card and sent it to a federal jail inmate who then cut it into pieces for sale to other inmates, investigators said.
Kristina Landry, 23, of Everett, was arrested at her home, where authorities found a small amount of methamphetamine, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court.
Her attorney, Jennifer Shaw, declined to comment Thursday.
According to the court documents, Landry was paid $150 to $200 a sheet for the meth-soaked paper she sent to Joseph Van Cleave, who is awaiting sentencing for a firearms offense in the jail in SeaTac. Van Cleave, 28, cut the paper into 2-inch-by-3-inch squares for sale at $35 each to other inmates who chewed it to get high, according to the complaint.
Authorities learned of the scheme through an informant. They recorded telephone conversations Van Cleave made from jail and intercepted a meth-soaked paper to another inmate, Corey Lamos, investigators said.
Van Cleave and Lamos also may be charged with meth-related offenses, assistant U.S. attorneys Norman Barbosa and Bruce Miyake said Wednesday.
Landry, arrested last week, was released to a halfway house Tuesday pending a preliminary hearing Dec. 19 on charges of conspiracy to distribute meth, unlawful use of the mail and introducing contraband into the lockup. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 44 years in prison.
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