Ex-correctional officer charged with mailing drug-laced books to 14 South Carolina prisons

[ad_1] A former correctional officer, a former inmate at a South Carolina prison and the ex-inmate’s brother have been arrested and charged with running a widespread operation to smuggle drugs into over a dozen state prisons.  The trio allegedly used packages “presented as containing books” to smuggle hundreds of strips containing synthetic cannabinoids and Suboxone…

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Maps show Hurricane Lorena’s path and forecast in Pacific as it threatens Mexico

[ad_1] One of two hurricanes churning over the Pacific Ocean early Wednesday could bring heavy rain and perhaps “life-threatening flash floods and mudslides” to Mexico’s Baja California peninsula later in the week, though possibly as a tropical storm, forecasters said. Hurricane Lorena just hit hurricane strength, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said but…

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