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Ky. inmate allegedly steals cocaine from incinerator

Up until recently, inmates would help out at a local animal shelter, which also housed an incinerator used to destroy drugs from criminal investigations

Local 12

KENTON COUNTY, Ky. — A program that provides jail inmates to a variety of Northern Kentucky facilities to perform jobs has come to a screeching halt temporarily. County officials and law enforcement are trying to figure out how to zip up a big loophole.

The review comes after a Kenton County jail inmate working at the animal shelter, recently managed to get his hands on what we’re told was as much as a kilo of cocaine.

Local 12 News Reporter Rich Jaffe says until very recently Kenton County jail inmates helped out with the animals at the Kenton County animal shelter on a regular basis. But there’s an incinerator there which is used to dispose of drugs confiscated during criminal investigations.

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