By Mark Gilger
The News-Item
COAL TOWNSHIP — A Philadelphia woman faces two felony offenses for allegedly passing marijuana and thumb drives in balloons to an inmate at SCI-Coal Township by kissing him.
Laborah Monique Evans, 26, was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III at about 3 p.m. Wednesday on charges of delivering marijuana and contraband relating to the March 21 incident.
According to a criminal complaint filed by Trooper Kevin Kearney of state police at Stonington, inmate Michael Dingle swallowed the balloons containing the marijuana and thumb drives after kissing Evans at 9:57 a.m. and 11:28 a.m.
After being searched at the prison, police said Evans went into a rest room twice on the side of the visiting room and allegedly placed the balloons in her mouth before kissing Dingle. Both transactions were observed by prison staff and captured on video.
After staff placed Dingle in a cell, police said the inmate passed nine balloons while defecating. Seven of the balloons were filled with one gram of marijuana each. The other two balloons each had a thumb drive containing pictures, porn videos and music.
During a telephone interview April 1, Kearney said Evans admitted that she took the contraband into the prison for Dingle and claimed it was the first time she ever did it. Evans, who claimed she was never in trouble before, told Kearney she would report to the state police station April 7, but never showed up.
Evans was committed to Snyder County Prison in lieu of $15,000 cash bail.