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GRUNDY COUNTY, Tenn. —
Authorities with the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO) are charging a Franklin County woman after they say she was caught on camera leaving a bag full of the drug fentanyl stuck to a door at the Grundy County Courthouse.
Deputies arrested 41-year-old Michelle Hodge, a licensed practical nurse of Estill Springs late Monday night.
The GCSO posted two surveillance videos of the incident on its Facebook page. Watch the videos here and here.
The GCSO says the incident happened on Friday. The footage shows a woman GCSO authorities idenitfy as Hodge sticking a fentanyl patch on a courthouse door, and then removing it and attaching it to another entrance through which inmates are transported.
Sheriff’s deputies interviewed Hodge, and say she confessed to the incident, saying she had been instructed to leave it for an inmate.
Hodgee is charged with possession of Schedule II drugs, possession without a prescription, reckless endangerment and conspiracy to introduce contraband to a penal facility.
The GCSO says she currently does not have a bond and is scheduled to appear in court on August 8th.