Two Lewis County Jail inmates are facing felony charges after Lewis County Jail staff found controlled substances inside the facility on two separate occasions within the last week.
Jail staff first found suboxone in a single-cell unit during a cell search on Thursday, Aug. 24. The cell’s occupant, identified as Andres Gabriel Gonzalez, 19, of Longview, had asked the corrections deputy to put his socks on before leaving the cell for the search but when the deputy noticed he “turned away from him to put the socks on, he asked Gonzalez for the socks,” according to court documents. Inside the socks, the deputy found “a piece of paper containing what appeared to be suboxone.” When asked to turn over any additional strips of suboxone he had, Gonzalez allegedly retrieved a strip from a deck of playing cards in the cell, according to court documents.
The deputy noted the suboxone, a medication used to treat opioid addiction, found in Gonzalez’s cell wasn’t the same used by the jail, indicating “he would have had to bring them in or have been provided them by someone who got them from outside the jail,” according to court documents.
Gonzalez was charged with one count of possession of a controlled substance by a non-prisoner in a correctional facility, a class C felony, on Friday, Aug. 25. Bail is set at $10,000, and arraignment was scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 31.
On Sunday, Aug. 27, deputies responded to a report that an inmate, identified as Macy Tayler Isabelle White, 24, of Longview, was using the jail library system to pass contraband between inmates. Deputies who searched White’s person found a “candy wrapper (that) had a white substance inside which had the look of consistency of fentanyl powder,” according to court documents. The substance did field-test positive for fentanyl powder, according to court documents.
When questioned, White allegedly admitted to using the jail library system to pass contraband but “was not willing to divulge who she was communicating with.”
White was charged Monday, Aug. 28 with one count of possession of a controlled substance while in a correctional facility, which is a class C felony. Bail is set at $10,000 and arraignment was scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 31.
