Inmate Accused of Smuggling Drugs into Blair County Prison

An inmate at the Blair County Prison is facing additional charges after police said she smuggled heroin packets into the prison.

According to the charges filed by Hollidaysburg Borough police, on July 5, Samantha Jo Miller, 36, of Hollidaysburg was observed in her cell digging into her underwear. When a correction officer asked her to show her hands, police said a heroin packet fell to the floor.

A female corrections officer took Miller to another room and performed a strip search and allegedly found a bag containing numerous packets stamped with “coming 2 america” in her private area.

When police interviewed Miller, she allegedly admitted to smuggling around 20 packets of what she believed to be either heroin or fentanyl in her underwear when she was brought to the prison five days earlier on a parole detainer.

Police said Miller told them that when prison officials were processing her into the jail, she notified them of her pacemaker, and they decided against putting her through the body scanner.

Police said Miller admitted to using some of the heroin earlier that morning and a drug test confirmed the presence of opiates and fentanyl in her system.

Police said Miller also admitted to giving some of the drugs to other inmates as well as her cell mates. Those inmates were also given drug tests and according to police tested positive for opiates and fentanyl in their systems as well.

Police took the packets confiscated from Miller and logged 12 packets of white wax packets stamped with “coming 2 america” which contained an off-white powder of suspected heroin or fentanyl, one yellow wax packet containing suspected heroin or fentanyl, as well as two empty white wax packets stamped with “coming 2 america.”

Miller is facing felony counts of contraband, possession of a controlled substance by an inmate, possession with intent to deliver along with a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Miller was arraigned by Hollidaysburg Magisterial District Judge Paula Aigner and remanded to Blair County Prison on $75,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 27 in front of Aigner.