ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)– An Albany woman will serve time in prison for sending drug-laced letters into prisons. According to the United States Attorney’s Office, Maya McIntosh, 33, was sentenced to serve eight years in prison.
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McIntosh previously admitted to making and mailing drug-soaked letters to correctional facilities across New York to different inmates. Officials said she had chemicals shipped to her home and combined them to create a liquid form of synthetic marijuana, known as MDMD-4en-PINACA.
The liquid was then sprayed onto copy paper and business envelopes and shipped to the prisons. She sent the envelopes as legal mail by stamping the names of attorneys in the return address without their knowledge or permission.
Officials said she used social media to sell the sheets. In March, she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and controlled substance analogue, distribution and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and controlled substance analogue, and unlawful possession and use of a means of identification…