ROCKINGHAM — A Hamlet woman is facing felony charges for allegedly supplying drugs to a Richmond County Jail employee to give to a detainee.
According to a warrant, 60-year-old Deborah Willett Hardy, of Palmer Wright Drive, brought four strips of suboxone and a gram of suspected heroin into the jail and gave it to 27-year-old jailer Brandon Lee Fields, who, in turn, is accused of passing it to an unnamed detainee.
Fields was arrested Wednesday and faces five charges in the incident.
Hardy was arrested Thursday and charged with one felony count each of possession of a controlled substance on jail premises; possession of a Schedule I controlled substance; possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a Schedule I controlled substance; and possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a Schedule III controlled substance.
Hardy is being held under a $75,000 secured bond; and Fields under a $100,000 secured bond. They are both scheduled to appear in court Dec. 3.
Records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction show Hardy was convicted in 1993 of common law robbery in Scotland County.
She also has two prior convictions of driving while impaired (1991, 1994) and one conviction of driving with a revoked license (1995) in Richmond County.
All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
