Guard tried to smuggle drugs, rum: prosecutors (Chicago Tribune)

A Cook County jail guard and the girlfriend of an inmate are being held on bond in a scheme to smuggle marijuna, rum, tobacco and stamps into the jail, authorities said. Prosecutors charged the two after the guard, Jose Nava Jr., 37, after a search Wednesday of his person revealed he was trying smuggle rum into the jail in his water bottle in a lunchbox, and had tobacco and marijuana in his …

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