60-Year-Old Smuggled 200 Pills, Paper Treated With 'Unknown Substance' Into Prison: NYSP

TOWN OF BEEKMAN, NY — Correction offers have foiled a smuggling attempt at a Hudson Valley prison, according to state troopers.

New York State Police say that on Saturday, a trooper from Poughkeepsie responded to the Greenhaven Correctional Facility, in the Town of Beekman, after receiving a report of a visitor bringing contraband into the facility.

An investigation found that 60-year-old Dawn M. Jones-Mills, of Buffalo, had smuggled over 200 pills and around 26 pieces of legal paper treated with an unknown substance into the prison, police said.

Jones-Mills was arrested and charged with felony fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance (intent to sell), felony first-degree knowingly introducing dangerous contraband into a prison, and two misdemeanor counts of second-degree promoting prison contraband.

She was arraigned in the Town of Beekman Court and released on her own recognizance. Jones-Mills is scheduled to reappear in the Town of Beekman Court on June 26.