New Screening Machine Finds Drugs Hidden in Envelope, Says Humboldt Co. Sheriff’s Office

Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

On Tuesday November 1, 2016 the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office added another level of drug detection within the Humboldt County Correctional Facility with the VeroVision Mail Screener. The Vero Vision Mail Screener detects drugs concealed within the incoming inmate mail using hyperspectral imaging to detect and highlight the presence of unknown substances that may be hidden within the articles of mail. Once an illicit substance has been detected, high-resolution spectral information can be acquired and used to generate a presumptive identification of the substance. The VeroVision Mail Screener can image an entire sheet of paper (9 x 12 inches) in seconds using wide-field spectral imaging and sees through envelopes, paper, stamps, stickers, and even under crayon.

On November 3, 2016, just two days after the installation of the VeroVision Mail Screener, Suboxone, also known as Buprenorphine, was found concealed within the seam of an envelope which was to be delivered to an inmate housed in the facility. The drug was in the form of a film strip that dissolves under the tongue, and is not easily detected with common visual inspection. Buprenorphine is a narcotic, a powerful and potentially addicting painkiller. According to a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) over half of the 30,000 hospitalizations involving buprenorphine in 2010 were for non-medical use.

An investigation is ongoing to determine the origin of the incoming mail and the contraband found inside.

Anyone with information for the Sheriff’s Office regarding this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Office at 707-445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at 707-268-2539.

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Mogtx
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7 years ago

I thought the cops read your mail before they give it to they screen it I guess they have a machine now to do there job .

silverlining
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silverlining
7 years ago

I am going to go with waste of money here. Any argument this is as necessary as it is expensive?
I may have read that Suboxone is a drug meant to wean one off heroin.
At any rate that is an long way to go to keep one inmate from getting high one or two times.

Really?
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Really?
7 years ago
Reply to  silverlining

Don’t worry! This isn’t real money. It’s “tax money”. And we will have more of this “tax money” coming from that “legal” weed deal we just suckered everybody into. So I’m going to say it’s totally cool that we let the government spend as much as they want on whatever… Because they are really smart and know better what to do with your former money! Ain’t it great being “safe and free”!!

Really?
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Really?
7 years ago

So up until now everybody in jail has had very easy access to all kinds of drugs? Because the cops just handed them their envelopes which they knew sometimes had drugs in them?!

Veterans friend
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Veterans friend
7 years ago

Most drugs enter jails & prisons via correctioal personel.

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7 years ago

They must of watched 60 days in! (It’s a tv show google it)

Mogtx
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7 years ago

Sixty days in is so fake think about it .they have production personal every were, and cameras in every room .they show on tv every thing going on in the dorms I started to watch it,but in my youth I done more time than I’d like to say .the show is crap.

Honeydew Bridge Chump
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Honeydew Bridge Chump
7 years ago
Reply to  Mogtx

Yes, the Tammy chick was in an A&E about shoplifting…