Mikel Short, who is currently an inmate in the state prison system, got 10 additional years tacked on to his sentence after admitting he was an active participant in a plan to sneak drugs hidden in a Bible to him while he was an inmate in the Baxter County jail.
Short made his plea and was sentenced during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
The events leading to the charges can be traced back to August last year when three people, including the 46-year-old-Short and his longtime live-in girlfriend, devised a plan to put methamphetamine in the spine of the bible along with tobacco and a small amount of material believed to be marijuana to get it into the jail.
Jail personnel found the contraband substances in the Bible during an inspection of inmate mail.
Short is currently an inmate in the state prison system on earlier convictions.
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