Kitchen worker charged with bringing drugs into southern Md. jail

A 44-year-old kitchen worker at the St. Mary’s County Detention and Rehabilitation Center has been busted for bringing “numerous prescription pills” and cigarettes into the detention center for the inmates.

Tammy Lee Hill of Mechanicsville is a contract worker for Aramark, a food services company. She allegedly brought the drugs, smokes and Suboxone, a drug used to treat opioid addiction, into the facility.

The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division started its investigation in May and charged her with six counts of possessing contraband Tuesday.

Colleen Kelleher

Colleen Kelleher is an award-winning journalist who has been with WTOP since 1996. Kelleher joined WTOP as the afternoon radio writer and night and weekend editor and made the move to WTOP.com in 2001. Now she works early mornings as the site's Senior Digital Editor.

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