Kia Hampton, 28, was arrested on May 26 in Allen County,
Ohio, after police say she was caught smuggling marijuana into the Allen
Correctional Institution for Jeremy Kelly, an inmate at the facility, according
to an affidavit detailing the arrest.
Hampton was crowned Miss Kentucky USA in November 2010 when
she was 21 years old. She was the first African American chosen to represent
Kentucky in the Miss USA pageant.
While listening to recorded phone calls, officers from the
Ohio State Highway Patrol said they obtained enough evidence to obtain a
warrant for a cavity search.
As officers were interrogating her, Hampton reached into her
pant leg and pushed a white balloon on to the floor, the affidavit said.
Officers later determined that she was carrying 2.82 grams
of marijuana into the jail, Assistant Allen County Prosecutor Kenneth Sturgill
said.
She was indicted on July 13 by an Allen County grand jury
and faces one count of "illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the
grounds of a specified governmental facility," a third-degree felony that
carries a three-year prison sentence.
Hampton is scheduled to be arraigned July 26 in Allen
County.
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