Woman accused of hiding tobacco, lighters outside Georgia prison

Dispatches: In late June, a 42-year-old woman confessed to hiding contraband outside Central State Prison in west Macon. According to an arrest warrant charging her with “trading with inmates,” the woman hid 72 packs of Bugler tobacco, four packs of rolling paper, three cans of Kodiak smokeless tobacco and five Bic lighters in a bag in a trash bin. The bin was said to be “in the rear of the prison grounds” at the Fulton Mill Road prison. The inmate she supposedly left the items for was a 44-year-old serving 20 years for a 2006 armed robbery and kidnapping in Elbert County northeast of Athens. The warrant didn’t describe the woman’s connection, if any, to the prisoner. . . . A Bibb County sheriff’s deputy pulled over a Warner Robins man in the wee hours of July 1 after seeing the man at the wheel of car, weaving down Pio Nono Avenue in Macon at about 10 mph. The car smelled of alcohol but the man, 60, said he hadn’t been drinking. Then his blood-alcohol level registered twice the legal limit, an incident report noted, adding that the man told another deputy he “only had a couple of drinks” called “electric lemonades.” . . . On the afternoon of July 29, an 18-year-old man from Metter in east Georgia reportedly had a run-in with a clerk at the Flash Foods store on Hartley Bridge Road in south Bibb. A sheriff’s report said the young man asked for a pack of Newport 100s cigarettes. When the clerk retrieved them, the young man began cussing. “Because she grabbed regular Newports, not the 100s,” the report noted. The young man scooped up the cigarettes and said he would “just take” them. Which he did, without paying.

This story was originally published July 22, 2016 at 1:00 AM with the headline "Woman accused of hiding tobacco, lighters outside Georgia prison."