Troopers warned courier in smuggling

[The Straight Story]

Troopers warned courier in smuggling

Ohio Senate Republicans have asked the state inspector general to investigate whether public-safety officials improperly killed a drug sting at the Governor's Residence.

High-ranking State Highway Patrol investigators had authorized a plan to arrest a woman suspected of involvement in a Jan. 10 plot to drop what was suspected to be drugs outside the Bexley mansion.

An inmate who was scheduled to work at the residence was to pick up the contraband and smuggle it into the Pickaway Correctional Institution near Orient, records show.

However, Public Safety Director Cathy Collins-Taylor overruled the plan on Jan. 9. Patrol Superintendent David Dicken dispatched troopers to warn the would-be courier that she faced arrest if she went through with the plot.

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