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Woman admits taking drugs in prison

A Monroe County woman admitted in Carbon County court on Friday that she hid illegal substances and syringes on her body twice and brought them into the county prison.

Jacqueline R. Homschek, 24, of Kunkletown, pleaded guilty in three pending cases. She pleaded to one count each of contraband at the prison, possession of a controlled substance at the prison, criminal use of a communication facility and false identification to law enforcement.She was arrested on the first contraband charge on Feb. 1, 2015, by Nesquehoning police who were called to the county prison for a woman with illegal substances after a strip search conducted at the prison turned up a syringe in Homschek's shoe, heroin packets in her bra and a used syringe in her coat pocket.Homschek was at Carbon County Correctional Facility for charges filed two days earlier by Mahoning Township Police for providing a false ID during a traffic stop.A few weeks later, on Feb. 25, Homschek was at District Judge Casimir Kosciolek's office in Lansford for her preliminary hearing when she asked to use the restroom.While in there, she stashed heroin and suboxone strips, as well as numerous syringes inside her genitals that were left for her by her boyfriend, Dylan Rahmann, 24, of Saylorsburg.Homschek returned to prison and shared the drugs with other female inmates.On March 3, Nesquehoning police were notified by the prison and Operation H Block commenced.Homschek was charged for again smuggling contraband into the prison.Judge Joseph J. Matika accepted the pleas but deferred sentencing ordering the adult probation office to prepare a presentence investigation report.Matika told Homschek that under state sentencing guidelines, in the standard range, she faces a minimum prison term of between 12 and 18 months, which could be served either in the county or a state prison.

Jacqueline Homschek