VERNON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a woman for attempting to take drugs to a jail inmate.

A Detention Officers located what they believe to be marijuana hidden inside of a Bible intended for an inmate in the Vernon County Jail. according to Sheriff Jason Mosher..

Ashley A Despain has been charged with Delivery Or Possession Of a Controlled Substance in a Jail, a class D Felony, when she walked into the Sheriff’s Office Monday evening asking to give the Bible to an inmate.

According to Mosher, the Detention Officer inspected the Bible and located a substance believed to be marijuana hidden inside the binding. A deputy was called and Despain was arrested in the parking lot.

Mosher said another person who drove to the Sheriff’s Office with Despain was also arrested on an unrelated warrant. The Sheriff said they have caught people attempting to smuggle contraband and drugs into the jail before, but never in a Bible. “If you show up at the Sheriff’s Office with drugs, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get arrested” Mosher said. Despain is now being held in the Vernon County Jail on a $5,000 bond.