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Grand Jury Indicts Ex-Employee, Inmates in Alleged Drug Ring at Mass. Jail
Ginger Hook allegedly smuggled $65,000 worth of synthetic marijuana disguised as legal documents into Dartmouth Jail, aiding a drug ring involving inmates and outside conspirators.
- On Oct. 20, Ginger Hook, 46, of New Bedford, was indicted with four others over an alleged drug-smuggling scheme at Dartmouth jail, involving inmates and outside associates.
- Operation Fish Hook, the investigation begun in March 2025, uncovered that the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit traced inmate Joseph Housley’s alleged K-2 smuggling ring involving outside help and a sheriff’s employee.
- Investigators found 13 sheets of paperwork disguised as legal work that tested positive for K-2 on June 9, valued at about $65,000 for inmate distribution at Dartmouth Jail.
- After the seizure, Hook resigned in July when confronted by investigators; several defendants pleaded not guilty and Barbosa-Mayo had bond set at $1,000 cash or $10,000 surety.
- Sheriff Paul Heroux said he increased K9 unit drug-detection dogs and screening, while Bristol County District Attorney Tom Quinn and a special prosecutor secured indictments with help from Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit and New Bedford Regional DEA.
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Sheriff: Former sheriff's dept. librarian smuggled $65,000 in drugs into Dartmouth jail
DARTMOUTH, Mass. (WLNE) — Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux announced what he is calling “perhaps the largest alleged employee drug bust in Bristol County jail history” on Monday. According to Heroux, a former employee of the Dartmouth jail was indicted on October 20 along with four alleged co-conspirators in an alleged drug-smuggling scheme. Ginger Hook, 46, of New Bedford, worked as the Coordinator of Library Services for the sheriff’s office…
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