(Granbury, Tx) – The Hood County News reports two people tried to smuggle methamphetamine to a jail inmate.

Hood County Sheriff’s Office has charged 27 year old Demarcus Ledre Lashley, 35 year old Courtney Jolene Conner and 28 year old Kaylee Christian Owen with having a prohibited substance in a correctional facility.  Owen is from Glen Rose, Lashley and Conner are from Nemo.

The charges stem from Conner and Owen placing a container of meth in an over-the-counter product and handing it off to a Hood County jailer to be delivered to Lashley, who is in jail on a family violence charge and parole warrant, according to authorities.  The Sheriff’s Office says “The ruse was uncovered by an alert jailer ”.

Lashley and Conner are in the Hood County Jail, and Owen was arrested by the Somervell County Sheriff’s Office and was taken to the jail in Glen Rose.