{"id":117979,"date":"2026-02-19T12:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117979\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:17:06","slug":"pennsylvania-doc-files-charges-in-mail-drug-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117979\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania DOC Files Charges In Mail Drug Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sci-coal-twp-FEAT.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-360580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sci-coal-twp-FEAT-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\"  \/><\/a>HARRISBURG \u2014 The state Department of Corrections has filed charges against two inmates who mailed drugs to several prisons\u2014including SCI Coal Township. Devin Walker and Dejah Schoolfield of Philadelphia are charged for allegedly smuggling synthetic drugs into state prisons through legal mail.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the pair used falsified attorney credentials to obtain a DOC-issued attorney control number allowing them to send drug-saturated paper to inmates. The investigation began in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/promail.ptd.net\/calendar\/day\/1714556841909\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 2024<\/a>\u00a0at SCI-Smithfield, where staff intercepted suspicious mail. Six of seven packages were seized and tested positive for drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG \u2014 The state Department of Corrections has filed charges against two inmates who mailed drugs to several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-117979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117979","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=117979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}