Second drug smuggling arrest in six days at Chautauqua County Jail

Debbie Hires is accused of passing a package containing methamphetamine to an inmate during a visit March 7 at the jail.

Corrections officers say they saw Hires passing an object to inmate Randall Rolison, and then Rolison was later found to have placed the package containing methamphetamine into his mouth.

Hires was charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband, fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Additionally, Rolison was charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Both were arraigned at the jail.

Six days earlier, Tammra Topliffe was arrested on suspicion of smuggling drugs into the county jail. Acting on a tip, corrections officers kept surveillance on Topliffe while in visitation and say they were able to observe her passing a cache of narcotics to inmate Preston Lawrence.