Woman arrested after trying to mail meth to Texas prison
A woman was arrested Thursday after she allegedly tried mailing meth to a high-profile double murderer in a North Texas prison, according to local reports.
Sara Elizabeth Russell of Katy, Texas, was jailed Thursday and held on $10,000 bond after a prison mailroom worker spotted an unexpected bulge disguising a powdery packet stashed in an incoming card, according to KFDX.
The handmade note allegedly included written instructions - apparently tips for how to disguise the drugs inside.
The illicit supplies were allegedly headed to prisoner Jason Aaron Burkett, a man who later admitted he'd made the card and mailed it to Russell, according to investigators. But he said that, despite the packaging instructions, he wasn't asking her to send him drugs.
The Texas Department of Public Safety crime lab tied fingerprints on the package back to Russell, the TV station reported, and jail records show she was charged with one count of prohibited substance in a correctional facility.
Burkett is serving a life sentence for his role in a brutal 2001 triple murder that left two teens and a mother dead.