TDCJ inspector general: multi‑jurisdiction strike force intercepts drugs and synthetic cannabinoids mailed to facilities

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s inspector general described multiagency operations that intercepted drugs and synthetic cannabinoids being mailed into prison mail rooms and led to multiple arrests and indictments.

Lance Coleman, inspector general, told the Board of Criminal Justice that investigators worked with the agency’s mail rooms and the state fusion center to develop leads that produced arrests in Odessa, Lampasas, Killeen, Laredo and Austin. “We started intercepting that contraband in the mail rooms, and then we developed information to get search warrants to go out and actually arrest these individuals,” Coleman said.

Coleman showed board members photos of books and other packaging that, he said, were “loaded with synthetic k2 on the pages”…