Jail worker caught bringing drugs to inmate

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico authorities say a female prison employee was caught bringing large amounts of heroin and cocaine to an inmate that she identified as her fiance.

Corrections spokeswoman Rosie Sais declined to release the employee's name, her position or say how many drugs were involved in the bust.

She says that information is being withheld until a Monday news conference in downtown Albuquerque.

She also says that the employee was not arrested but that charges against her were pending.

Sais says that the bust is the largest drug bust at the Southern New Mexico Corrections Facility, near Las Cruces, and one of the largest in department history.

Sais says police will provide photos of the drugs and an audio clip of a phone call between the employee and the inmate.