Six people have been arrested in connection to an effort of smuggling drugs into the Jackson County Jail, police report.

Clarence Steven McDonald, 31, of Brownstown; Michael Allen Romero, 30, Steven Lewis Waggoner, 30, and Shawn Camerino Romero, 29, all of Seymour; Pennie Furnish, 50, of Austin; and Glenda Joyce Sizemore, 31, of Norman face a Level 5 felony charge of trafficking with an inmate, according to a news release from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department.

The investigation that led to their arrests began Nov. 24, 2019, when jail staff told Detective Mark Holt about a bottle of contact solution Sizemore had brought to the jail in Brownstown to give to McDonald, police said.

Any products containing liquids such as contact solution that are brought to the jail for inmates are checked for contraband by jailers.

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A jailer checking the bottle Sizemore brought in found it had been opened and attempted to be resealed, police said. A rubber latex glove also was found in the bottle, which was turned over to Holt and Bob Lucas, a crime scene investigator with the sheriff’s department.

Lucas recovered the glove and found seven tablets, later identified as a Schedule III controlled substance, inside it.

During the investigation, Holt said he located several recorded telephone calls from the jail’s telephone system from those involved in the plan to traffic drugs into the jail.

Both of the Romeros, McDonald and Waggoner all were in jail at the time the investigation began. Furnish was arrested on a warrant Jan. 10 and later posted bond and was released. Sizemore was arrested Feb. 3 on a warrant and also has posted bond and been released.