TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Ashley Mullins, a 40-year-old from Appalachia, Virginia, has been sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison for introducing methamphetamine into Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution.
The sentence was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. “This inmate now has an extended stay in our federal prison after trying to smuggle these deadly drugs into the correctional facility. My office remains committed to keeping these drugs off our streets and out of our prisons,” stated U.S. Attorney Heekin.
According to court records, Mullins, who was an inmate at the federal prison, was caught by a Bureau of Prisons officer with a bulging object in her pocket. Upon being directed to empty her pockets, several contraband items were discovered, including a crystal substance and a crystal powder substance in a bag. Forensic testing later confirmed the substances were methamphetamine…