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Vermont Mom Charged Smuggling Drugs to Jail Via Child

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ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. -

An arrest warrant has been issued for a 32-year-old Vermont woman charged with using her 4-year-old daughter to try to smuggle narcotics into prison for her husband.

Ami Lamell was due in court Monday to answer charges that included smuggling drugs into a jail and cruelty to a child, but she did not appear so a warrant was issued for her arrest.

Court documents say a correctional officer saw Lamell's husband, Bruce Lamell, take something out of the girl's pocket during a Jan. 3 visit and put it in his mouth.

Officers said Ami Lamell later admitted wrapping three pills used to treat opiate addiction and placing them in her daughter's pocket.

The Caledonian Record reports officers later retrieved tablets wrapped in a yellow balloon.

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