Lawyer Allegedly Tried to Slip Jailed Son a Blade
A woman was arrested for trying to smuggle hacksaw blades inside a Bible to her jailed son who was only recently recaptured after escaping from prison, authorities said.
Tawana Cherese Smith, 54, was arrested in southern Oklahoma near the town of Waurika after authorities said they found the blades in the spine of a Bible she brought to her son, Joshua Bagwell.
Smith, an attorney who has been representing her son, was also found to be carrying two assault rifles in her pickup, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said.
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