Alaska State Troopers say a medical examination of a female inmate at the Anchorage Correctional Complex yielded a package containing four separate drugs -- and additional charges against the woman.
According to a Tuesday trooper dispatch, jail staff informed troopers Monday morning that 28-year-old Kelsey Duncan was "secreting heroin in an internal body cavity."
Anchorage-based members of troopers' Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics Team obtained a search warrant for staff at a local hospital to search Duncan's body for contraband items, then remove any of them found. Troopers said a subsequent CT scan of Duncan revealed a "large foreign object" within her.
"The foreign object removed from Duncan was found to contain 15g of tar heroin, 13 Suboxone sublingual strips, 9 Alprazolam pills and 1 Clonazepam pill," troopers wrote. "Duncan was subsequently returned to incarceration."
On Tuesday troopers returned to the jail, where Duncan was still being held and served her an arrest warrant charging her with four first-degree counts of promoting contraband, as well as one second-degree count, one fourth-degree count and three fifth-degree counts of misconduct involving controlled substances.
Duncan was being held without bail Wednesday morning according to the terms of the warrant, troopers said in the dispatch.