LEBANON — A 61-year-old Fairfield woman faces up to five years in prison after admitting Friday that she smuggled 2 ounces of marijuana into Warren Correctional Institution in her bra for her son, a convicted killer.

        Shirley M. Kerr pleaded guilty in Warren County Common Pleas Court to a felony charge of illegal conveyance of drugs into a detention facility.

        She remains free on bond until sentencing in about a month. Prison time is not mandatory, Assistant Prosecutor Keith Anderson said.

        Mrs. Kerr was arrested at the prison outside Lebanon in November during a visit to her son, James B. Kerr, who has been serving a life sentence since 1985 for kidnapping, aggravated robbery and aggravated murder.

        Court documents indicate that Mr. Kerr wrote to his mother a week before the arrest instructing her to pick up the drugs.

        Prison investigators, who often monitor inmate mail, read the letter before sending it out and taped a subsequent phone call between Mr. Kerr and his mother, according to an affidavit for a warrant to search Mrs. Kerr.

        During the Nov. 5 visit, state investigators served Mrs. Kerr with the search warrant, and she pulled two bundles of marijuana out of her bra, court records show.

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