Amy Wilhite, 39, from Missouri, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for smuggling a gun into a county jail hidden in her secret hiding spot.
According to a report by The Smoking Gun, the 39-year-old had been arrested in February for drug and gun-related charges. She passed the initial body search by the Columbia Police Department when she was booked into the Boone County Jail. Seventeen days into her sentence, jailers discovered the .22 caliber revolver loaded with five rounds wrapped in plastic among Wilhite’s items in jail.
Investigators allege Wilhite concealed the small weapon inside her vagina to avoid detection but later “removed the firearm from her body and concealed it within her personal belongings.”
“During questioning at the jail, Wilhite admitted possessing the firearm, but claimed ‘she was only holding it for another female detainee.’ But fellow inmates in Wilhite’s housing unit ‘all stated Amy was in possession of the firearm,’” an investigator reported,” the outlet wrote. “In addition to copping to the gun smuggling charge, Wilhite pleaded guilty on April 19 to the felony drug and weapons counts for which she was originally arrested. She was ordered to serve five years on each conviction, with the sentences to run concurrently with the 10-year prison term.”
Not surprisingly, other women have smuggled items into prison in their vaginas as well. In 2013, an Oklahoma woman was sentenced to 25 years in state prison for concealing a loaded handgun in her vagina after being arrested on a drug charge, the Smoking Gun reported at the time.
“Christie Dawn Harris, 28, last week entered no-contest pleas to three felony counts during a hearing in Pontotoc County District Court. Harris, whose rap sheet already includes multiple felony convictions, copped on June 27 to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, gun possession, and bringing contraband into jail,” the outlet reported.
Harris had been arrested after a drug dog alerted police to her vehicle, where police found meth, drug paraphernalia, a gun, and a loaded magazine. When she was being transported to the local jail, Harris told an officer “several times that she needed to go to the bathroom,” the police department reported.
Police found the gun sticking out of her vagina while being searched ahead of booking.
