(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – A 22-year-old Chicago woman is in hot water for allegedly trying to smuggle drug-soaked paper into the Cook County Jail using a baby’s diaper as the vehicle for the contraband.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office says it got to the bottom of things after Reality McDowell, with a 9-month-old child, visited a detainee on Jan. 8.
Authorities were monitoring live security camera video when they saw McDowell hand the child to the detainee, officials said, and the detainee removed a piece of paper hidden in the baby’s diaper.
Investigators obtained the paper after a search, and it appeared saturated with an unknown substance, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. Laboratory tests later determined the paper was saturated with the hallucinogen PCP, officials said.
McDowell was charged with possession of a controlled substance and bringing a controlled substance into a penal institution, both felonies. She was released this week pending trial, officials said.
The Sheriff’s Office said it notified the state’s Department of Children and Family Services.
Since last year, 36 individuals have been charged with drug-related offenses at the jail, officials said.
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