Kiss of Heroin Nets Woman 18 Months in Jail

A Hanover woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for her role in a drug smuggling scheme that involved her transferring heroin to her boyfriend in prison through a kiss. 

The U.S. Attorney's Office said Terry Sadler, 37, pleaded guilty in the case, admitting that she entered the prison with heroin stored in balloons in her mouth, and transferred the balloons into her boyfriend's mouth. 

Sadler's boyfriend, Jose Joaquin Morales, was sentenced to 21 years in prison in the case. That sentence came in addition to the 22 years he was already serving on a separate drug smuggling charge. 

According to prosecutors, Morales was already serving time in a prison in Canaan, Pennsylvania when he conspired to bring heroin into the jail and to continue marijuana trafficking operations. 

The U.S. Attorney's office said Morales would enlist women to bring heroin to the prison inside balloons held in their mouths. The women would exchange the heroin by kissing, moving the heroin from the woman’s mouth to Morales.

Prosecutors said Sadler transferred Heroin to Morales using this method in April of 2010. 

Morales asked Sadler to come a second time in September of 2010, and requested she bring her young child so that the visit would be viewed less suspiciously. A day before that scheduled visit, drug enforcement agents executed a search warrant on Sadler's home and found heroin and balloons.

Morales is also due to stand trial in September on charges that he used a prison phone to order a killing.