Female visitor arrested at PCF for trafficking with inmate

Pamela Spears is cuffed by PCF correctional officer.

PUTNAMVILLE -- A 54-year-old female visitor has been arrested on three felony charges for allegedly attempting to traffic with an offender at the Putnamville Correctional Facility (PCF), prison officials reported Tuesday.

The Putnamville Correctional Facility's Office of Investigations and Intelligence (OII) obtained intelligence that indicated visitor Pamela Kay Spears of Indianapolis would attempt to traffic with inmate James Bayles during a visit with an offender on Aug. 28.

In confronting Spears upon her arrival, investigators informed her they knew she was in possession of the drug Suboxone and that she was planning on trafficking the contraband to the offender.

Spears immediately surrendered the orange paper-like substance, PCF officials said.

According to the probable cause affidavit in the case, Spears admitted that on her previous visit to see Bayles on Aug. 14, she also trafficked Suboxone strips, which she said she purchased for $15 apiece a couple weeks prior to that visit.

The Indianapolis woman told authorities she would keep the Suboxone in her waistband during her visit and then move it to her mouth before kissing Bayles and passing the drug to him with the kiss.

Spears was placed under arrest by a correctional police officer on charges of conspiracy to traffic with an inmate (Level 5 felony), dealing in a controlled substance (Level 6 felony) and possession of a controlled substance (Level 6 felony).

She was then transported to the Putnam County Jail without incident.