Photo courtesy Multnomah County Sheriff's Office
GRESHAM, Ore. -- A mother tried to sneak meth and oxycodone hidden inside tampon applicators to her inmate daughter earlier this year, officials told KATU News.
Brandi Lynn Miller, 29, was booked into the Multnomah County Jail for raiding Portland mailboxes earlier this year. She was sentenced to four years behind bars.
At some point, she asked her mother for help getting her drugs. Multnomah County officials confirmed the woman's mother stuffed prescription drugs into tampon applicators, which she left taped to a toilet at a Gresham dental office, where her daughter was granted special permission to get treatment.
Miller was escorted by deputies to the bathroom at the dental office that day in March. The mother-daughter duo's plan crumbled when the tampons fell to the ground and were discovered by deputies.
The two decided to try the plan again a few days later at a Portland dental clinic. When Miller's mother, 53-year-old Elizabeth Kay Sparkman, arrived at the clinic with tampons stuffed with meth, oxycodone and other drugs, deputies were waiting to arrest her.
Sparkman was charged with -- and pleaded guilty to -- conspiracy to supply contraband, delivery of meth and delivery of oxycodone. She was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
Miller was sentenced to an additional 8 months for her role in the conspiracy.
