Georgia man charged with using Chinese food to smuggle drugs into jail

Matt Elofson

Dothan Eagle 
July 7, 2010

Pike County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Georgia man over the Fourth of July weekend on a charge he tried to smuggle marijuana in to a jail inmate with a container of Chinese food.

Court records show deputies arrested Edward Ridley, 41, of Cordele, Ga., and charged him Saturday with felony promoting prison contraband. Records show Ridley apparently entered the Pike County Jail with a styrofoam container with Chinese food inside, including rice and shrimp, for inmate Vincent Thomas. A jailer at the facility used a fork to search the food and found a bag of marijuana. 

If convicted of the class C felony charge, promoting prison contraband, Ridley faces one to 10 years in prison. He was being held in the Pike County Jail on a $7,500 bond.