GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Cedar Springs woman has been sentenced to jail for trying to smuggle drugs into the Kent County jail and using an attorney’s name to do it.

Shannon Jean Soltys was accused of forging mail as if it were from attorneys and using attorney-client privilege to smuggle drugs into the jail. A Kent County judge on Wednesday sentenced her to nine months in jail and placed her on probation for three years.

The investigation got underway in April 2023 when the attorney who got the returned mail told deputies he didn’t recognize it as something that came from his office, investigators said. Inside the package were strips of Suboxone, an opioid, court records show.

A search of Soltys’ home turned up methamphetamine, fentanyl, analogues as well as digital scales and materials to package drugs, records show.

Investigators say Soltys admitted to them that she sent two packages containing a total of 10 strips of Suboxone to an inmate. She also admitted in a phone call to another inmate at the jail that she sent the package, records show.

She faced several drug charges and a count of furnishing contraband to prisoners, which is punishable by up to five years in prison. In September, she pleaded guilty to six charges.