By Adam Ferrise
Cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A New York attorney is accused of using a hollowed-out computer to smuggle cellphones, marijuana and tobacco into a private Ohio prison.
Ivy Collins-Harris, of Rochester, New York, was caught bringing the items into the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown under the guise of meeting with two inmates, neither of whom was her client, according to court records.
Collins-Harris is charged in U.S. District Court in Akron with attempting to smuggle contraband into a prison. She was released from custody Wednesday on a $20,000 unsecured bond after her first court appearance.
Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer reached out to Collins-Harris’ attorney, Darin Thompson, for comment.
Around 1 p.m. Tuesday, Collins-Harris showed up at NEOCC and identified herself as the attorney for inmates John Moore and Jordan Dandridge, according to an FBI affidavit. She is not the attorney of record for either man in their cases, according to the affidavit.
Collins-Harris went through the first security checkpoint, then to another mandatory screening checkpoint, where a security officer found two vacuum-sealed packages of tobacco, weighing about two pounds, inside an accordion-style folder, the affidavit says.
An NEOCC investigator searched the folder and found 57 grams of marijuana, court records say. The investigator searched Collins-Harris’ purse and found two hollowed-out laptops that contained eight cellphones and multiple phone chargers, the affidavit says.
Collins-Harris agreed to let investigators search her Jeep Cherokee in the parking lot where investigators found a New York State Unified Court System Attorney Secure Pass and seized her phone, court records say.
Both Dandridge and Moore are being held in the lockup on charges out of U.S. District Court in the Western District of New York.
Dandridge faces drug and gun charges and is awaiting trial, according to the affidavit. Moore was previously convicted of gun charges and was ordered held in custody ahead of a hearing on accusations that he violated the terms of his post-prison supervision, according to the affidavit.
Collins-Harris was admitted to the Alabama bar in 2020 and the New York bar in 2024, according to state records.
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