A Carbon County prison inmate testified Thursday that on Feb. 25 she retrieved heroin and suboxone strips from the public bathroom of a Lansford district judge's office, where her boyfriend had put them, hid them inside her body and took them back to Carbon County prison, where she shared them with three other inmates.

Jacqueline Homschek, 24, waived her right to a preliminary hearing before District Judge Casimir Kosciolek of Lansford. She'll face charges of unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance, possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance, contraband/controlled substance, contraband/possession of a controlled substance by an inmate, criminal solicitation, criminal conspiracy, criminal use of a communication device, and possession of drug paraphernalia in county court.Homschek retrieved the drugs while at the district judge's office for a preliminary hearing on charges of smuggling drugs into the prison on Jan. 29, 2014.Under questioning by Assistant District Attorney Michael Greek, Homschek said she shared the drugs with inmates Shaina Haas, Tiffany J. Scott, and Jennifer Steigerwalt.It was initially believed that Homschek also smuggled syringes into the prison, but she said she did not, and no syringes were found in searches.Haas, Scott and Steigerwalt all were charged with possession of a controlled substance/contraband by an inmate, criminal conspiracy, and possession of drug paraphernalia, and waived their rights to preliminary hearings.Haas testified against Homschek, and implicated inmate Holly M. Koch.Correctional officer Brian Price testified that inmate Jennifer L. Rudelitch told him she "did a little" of the drugs, and correctional officer Jacqueline Shubeck testified that inmate Megan R. Magushak told her she had taken a "small piece of a suboxone strip."Kosciolek sent charges of possession of controlled substances by an inmate against Rudelitch, Magushak and Koch of Lehighton to court.Charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal conspiracy against Magushak and Koch were dropped after their lawyers, Edward Olexa and Adam Weaver, respectively, argued there was no evidence to support them.Kosciolek reduced Koch's and Magushak's bail from $20,000 straight cash to 10 percent. Olexa said his client was paroled two weeks and needed to be out of jail to get outpatient substance abuse treatment.Other inmates whom police believe shared in the smuggled drugs, Alexis Goldberg and Dana McFadden, waived the rights to a hearing.Haas, Goldberg, Scott, McFadden, Steigerwalt and Rudelitch, all charged with controlled substance/contraband by an inmate, criminal conspiracy, and possession of drug paraphernalia, remain in jail, as do Homschek, Magushak and Koch.Homschek's boyfriend, Dylan Rahmann, 24, of Saylorsburg, also waived, and is free on $20,000 unsecured bail. He is charged with was charged with unlawful delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance, possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance, contraband/controlled substance, criminal solicitation, criminal conspiracy, criminal use of a communication device, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.He is also charged with making false reports for lying to police about a home invasion.Homschek's grandmother, Betty Gargone, 67, of Kunkletown, whom police say admitted that she knew of the plan but failed to tell police, had her preliminary hearing continued at the request of her lawyer, Paul Levy. She remains free on $20,000 unsecured bail.Also testifying were Warden Timothy Fritz and Nesquehoning Police Chief Sean Smith, who conducted the investigation and levied the charges.The investigation, called Operation H Block, was triggered on March 3 when then-deputy warden Fritz called Smith to tell him that he learned of Rahmann's and Homschek's plan.Mahoning Township police brought her to the hearing. Because there were no female guards to accompany her, Homschek went into the bathroom by herself and retrieved the drugs Rahmann allegedly placed there.Urine screens on the inmates in the next day or two revealed the presence of morphine in Homschek, Steigerwalt, Haas, Scott and Goldberg.McFadden and Scott's urine also showed suboxone, and Haas and Goldberg had codeine (sometimes used to adulterate heroin) on board.Koch refused the test and, according to prison policy, was treated as though she tested positive. Rudelitch and Magushak's urine showed nothing.