February 21, 2023
By: Dwayne Page
A female prisoner at the DeKalb County Jail last month was caught with letters laced with Suboxone. 33-year-old Cassandra Renee Reed of Foster Road, McMinnville, was charged at that time with bringing contraband into a penal institution. Now, the man believed to have sent her the letters coated with the suboxone drug has been charged in the case.
46-year-old Christopher Peter Mulford of Jacobs Pillar Road, Smithville is charged with sending contraband to a penal institution. His bond is $20,000 and he will be in court March 2.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said Mulford, using a different name, sent Reed two letters which arrived at the jail on January 12 & 19. The letters appeared to have been soaked in a substance, believed to be the schedule III drug Suboxone, before being dried and written on. Phone calls were recorded regarding the letters, between Reed and Mulford discussing the need for her to obtain the letters before her being transferred to another facility. A detective from the Sheriff’s Department spoke with Reed, who admitted that the letters laced with Suboxone were sent to her by Mulford with whom she had spoken on the phone. Her plans were to chew on the letters to get the drug into her system. The letters were sent to the TBI Crime Lab for testing.