A Mountain Home woman pled guilty during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court to charges stemming from her efforts to get a controlled substance to an inmate in the county jail.
Thirty-six-year-old Tiffanie Cortez-Lynn was sentenced to 10 years probation.
On January 26, a woman identified as the mother of inmate Ralph Eugene Ford came to visit him in the jail. The mother brought pictures to give to her son.
All items brought into the jail are checked for contraband. When the pictures were examined, a postage stamp on one of them had a half strip of Suboxone, a Schedule 3 controlled substance, hidden underneath it.
The mother said Cortez-Lynn had given her the pictures to take to her son and she had no knowledge the contraband had been placed under the stamp. Phone messages the mother had with Cortez-Lynn were retained by her.
According to the probable cause affidavit, a review of those conversations corroborated the mother’s story.
During her appearance last week, Cortez-Lynn also confirmed that Ford’s mother knew nothing at all about the plan to get the drug into the jail.
Recorded phone calls between Ford and Cortez-Lynn were reviewed and it was determined that Ford had received an earlier delivery of pictures “and that everyone is happy.”
In those conversations, Ford also told Cortez-Lynn to send more pictures and told her to give them to his mother to bring to the jail.
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