Attorney took cocaine, ecstasy, pills and phones into Columbus jail, investigator says

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Local attorney Allen Jones, 51, appears remotely for a hearing before Municipal Court Judge Steven D. Smith Friday morning in Columbus, Georgia. 03/31/2023 

Cocaine, ecstasy, hydrocodone, iPhones, tobacco and cigarette rolling papers. Those were among the items local defense attorney Allen C. Jones smuggled to a murder suspect being held in the Muscogee County Jail, a sheriff’s investigator testified Friday in Muscogee Municipal Court. Jones, 51, appeared via teleconference before Judge Steven Smith for a bond hearing following his arrest Thursday on 10 felony counts related to taking contraband into the jail.

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and at https://www.wtvm.com/2023/04/01/attorney-accused-smuggling-contraband-muscogee-county-jail-granted-200000-bond/