COOK COUNTY, IL – A 47-year-old Country Club Hills woman has been charged with a felony after Sheriff’s Office investigators caught her trying to smuggle drug-soaked paper into Cook County Jail, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today.
On Aug. 29, Sheriff’s Office investigators learned that Nakeisha Andrews might attempt to bring in drug-soaked paper while visiting an individual in custody that day. When she arrived for her visit, investigators stopped her and conducted a pat down search, where they recovered an 8 x 10 piece of paper wrapped in plastic from inside her shirt.
The paper, which appeared to be soaked in an unknown substance, was sent to the Illinois State Police forensic lab for testing and came back positive for heroin and fentanyl.
On Oct. 30, Sheriff’s investigators took Andrews, of the 4100 block of 189th Street, into custody. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office charged her with Bringing a Controlled Substance into a Penal Institution, a Class 1 felony.
Andrews appeared for her initial hearing on Oct. 31 at the George N. Leighton Criminal Courthouse, where she was ordered released from custody pending trial.
The Sheriff’s Office this year has secured 59 charges in connection with possessing or smuggling drug-soaked paper into the jail. The Sheriff’s Office will aggressively pursue criminal charges against anyone attempting to bring these dangerous substances into the jail.
The public is reminded that the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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