Who Smuggled Drugs into the Lauderdale County Detention Center?

 

Harley James Coyer, facing 11 charges, had been incarcerated in the Lauderdale County Detention Center without bail for the past nine months. He left the jail on Valentine's Day at 7:27 p.m. - in a body bag. Another unnamed inmate who was being housed in the same jail suite as the 37 year-old Florence man was similarly ill, but taken to the hospital and is now in fair condition.

With no signs of trauma on the deceased's body, authorities are looking at drugs. How did these dangerous substances get into the detention center?

Only attorneys and corrections personnel enter the jail. Some years ago, a now disbarred attorney was accused of smuggling drugs to one of his clients, but was never charged. There have been several arrests the past few years charging jailers and other personnel of smuggling drugs. One enterprising young officer slipped Suboxone strips between the pages of a Bible he attempted to deliver to an inmate.

According to social media, Harley Coyer had a wife and family. Whoever brought the drugs into the detention center should be charged with Felony Murder. It won't bring the deceased inmate back, but it might make other jailers think twice before they introduce contraband into the jail.