{"id":105262,"date":"2026-02-04T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105262\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:12:06","slug":"3-people-charged-with-trying-to-smuggle-drugs-into-allegheny-county-jail-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105262\/","title":{"rendered":"3 people charged with trying to smuggle drugs into Allegheny County Jail \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Three people have been charged with trying to smuggle drugs into the Allegheny County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Allegheny County Police said that last month, detectives began to receive information about two incarcerated people planning to bring synthetic marijuana, also known as K2, into the jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Those two people were later identified as Tyrease Platt, 31, and Chaz Coles, 39. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Feb. 2, detectives said they reviewed jail records that showed Platt and Coles were working with another man to have the drugs placed in a bathroom of a local magistrate\u2019s office on Feb. 3, when Coles was scheduled to appear for his preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Detectives responded to the magistrate\u2019s office at 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 3 and witnessed Tyrique Craighead, 33, arrive and go to the bathroom, according to police. Once Craighead exited the bathroom, detectives searched inside and found an open bag of Doritos that contained multiple pieces of rolled paper, which tested positive for synthetic cannabinoids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Craighead was taken into custody. All three men are facing multiple charges, including criminal conspiracy, contraband and criminal use of a communication facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Three people have been charged with trying to smuggle drugs into the Allegheny County Jail. Allegheny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9647,3229,50868,11009,50869,73,75,74,50870],"class_list":{"0":"post-105262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-allegheny-county-jail","9":"tag-charges","10":"tag-contraband","11":"tag-drugs","12":"tag-k2","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","15":"tag-pittsburgh-news","16":"tag-smuggle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}