“Return to Sender” is not just a catchy Elvis song of the 1960s, but a code name for the latest elaborate criminal operation to smuggle contraband into Lee County Jail, Florida. Sheriff Carmine Marcino said his Lee County investigators found that an “outside person” would “liquefy methamphetamine” and then apply it to postcards. The cards were dried and then posted to inmates through traditional mail channels, he told a press conference on Oct. 26. The sheriff said the investigation has been going on since August, when jail officers noticed something odd with inmate mail. That is when Marcino’s team went to work on finding out what was going on. Reports said detectives listened to jail phone calls and pored through emails and that work helped to identify the men and women involved in the crime. Later, deputies found that a 33-year-old woman was mailing the “meth-laced” postcards to the jail …
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