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U.S. NEWS Thursday 1 March 2018

Milkman accused of sneaking drugs, phones into Ohio prison

By ANDREW HUGGINS of conveying drugs and years and a prison milk de-
Associated Press cellphones and remains liveryman for the past two
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A free on bond. His attorney years, Fornshell said.
longtime milkman deliv- hasn’t returned messages Investigators believe the
ered more than what the seeking comment. contraband scheme was
labels on his packages The family-owned United dreamed up last August.
promised, smuggling mari- Dairy would never tolerate Before making deliveries,
juana, tobacco and cell- such activity and Adams Adams would meet a con-
phones into an Ohio prison was fired immediately, said tact at a nearby highway
hidden inside milk cartons, human resources director gas station and receive
a prosecutor said. Doug Longenette. substitute milk cartons con-
Ray Adams was in contact “It’s just a sad situation all taining the contraband
with an inmate at Lebanon the way around,” he said before entering the prison,
Correctional Facility who Wednesday. “We hope our Fornshell said. An inmate
facilitated the deliveries employees would think be- took it from there.
and set up payments, ac- fore they did something like “It’s not being brought in
cording to Warren County that.” just to be randomly passed
Prosecutor David Fornshell. Prisons spokeswoman Jo- out to whoever — ‘Hey it’s
Adams, an employee of Ellen Smith declined to your lucky day, you’re one
Martins Ferry-based United comment because of the of 30 winners today,’” Forn-
Dairy Inc., made thousands pending criminal charges shell said.
of dollars sneaking the against Adams. “Somebody on the inside
items in over time, Fornshell Ohio began relying on out- This undated photo provided by the Warren County Sheriff’s had to be looking for the
said side companies to deliver Office shows Ray Adams. Warren County Prosecutor David milk cartons coming in,
On Jan. 8, authorities milk to prisons after selling Fornshell says Adams, a milk delivery man, snuck marijuana, knowing how they were
searched the nearly 30,000 off its dairy cows in 2016. tobacco and cellphones into an Ohio prison hidden in milk going to be marked, know-
half-pint milk cartons Ad- Reducing contraband was cartons. ing what day they were
ams was delivering that day one of several factors the (Warren County Sheriff’s Office via AP) coming in,” the prosecutor
and found contraband, in- prisons director cited at on farming operations will fact sheet from the Depart- said.
cluding 12 cellphones, in 30 the time in support of the also minimize the opportu- ment of Rehabilitation and Fornshell said the investi-
of them. move. nities for passing illegal con- Correction. gation was ongoing and
Adams, 50, has not yet en- “The department antici- traband into our prisons,” Adams has been a driver there could be additional
tered a plea to charges pates that phasing out pris- according to an April 2016 with United Dairy for 14 charges.q

Man accused of terrorism standing trial in 1 of 4 killings

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Ju- son in New Jersey to be 2014. He has pleaded not a man late at night outside over the course of approxi-
rors were being selected charged with terrorism guilty to all charges in the Seattle in April 2014 and mately two months, and all
Wednesday to hear the connected to a homicide case. then killed two men after under the common and
terrorism trial of a man ac- case, prosecutors said. Tevlin’s father, Mike Tevlin, they left a Seattle nightclub single scheme of exacting
cused of killing four people Brown was charged with has said his son had not in June. ‘vengeance’ against the
in two states in revenge for fatally shooting 19-year-old settled on a college major Prosecutors have said United States government
U.S. policy in the Middle college student Brendan when he was killed. Brown characterized him- for its foreign policies,”
East. Tevlin of Livingston, New “He was a great kid who self as a strict Muslim who prosecutors in Washington
Ali Muhammad Brown, 33, Jersey, at a traffic light in was just coming home, and became angry with the wrote in court filings.
of Seattle, is the first per- nearby West Orange in he didn’t deserve to die deaths of civilians and chil- Brown already is serving a
like that,” Mike Tevlin said in dren during U.S. involve- 36-year prison sentence in
2016. ment in Iraq, Iran and Af- New Jersey for his convic-
Brown is also awaiting trial ghanistan. tion on robbery and other
in three killings in Washing- “The defendant was on a charges.
ton state from earlier in the bloody crusade, executing He is expected to be taken
same year. four innocent men ... with back to Washington follow-
Prosecutors said Brown shot the same murder weapon, ing his trial in New Jersey.q