{"id":220193,"date":"2025-09-12T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/220193\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:36:12","slug":"woman-suspected-of-sending-drug-laced-letter-to-san-diego-area-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/220193\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman suspected of sending drug-laced letter to San Diego-area jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sheriff-Patch.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sheriff-Patch.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego County Sheriff patch jail crime scene arrest\" class=\"wp-image-72904\" style=\"width:738px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a>A San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s deputy\u2019s patch. (File photo courtesy of the San Diego County Sheriff \u2018s Office)<\/p>\n<p>A woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly mailing a drug-laced letter to an Otay Mesa jail, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Brittany Shahbakhti, 34, was taken into custody after detectives served a search warrant at her home in Fullerton, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sdsheriff.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shahbakhti allegedly sent the methamphetamine-infused mail to an inmate at the George Bailey Detention Facility on Aug. 21. Before it reached its alleged intended recipient, it was intercepted by deputies assigned to a mail-processing facility.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged crime is a felony carrying a penalty of up to six years in prison, according to the Sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not disclose the nature of Shahbakhti\u2019s relationship to the intended recipient of the letter.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s deputy\u2019s patch. (File photo courtesy of the San Diego County Sheriff \u2018s Office)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,119992,1230,72994,3549,24350,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-220193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-drug-laced-letters","12":"tag-drugs","13":"tag-fullerton","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-office","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115189945746338174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}