Inmate accused of smuggling

WOODSTOCK -- A Shenandoah County Jail inmate faces an additional charge this week.

Andrew James Lowery, 26, of Limestone, Tenn., was indicted last summer for possession of morphine. He was then charged Dec. 27 with unauthorized delivery of an article to jail.

Shenandoah County Sheriff's Lt. Darcy Dellinger said Lowery smuggled in two golfball-sized packages of tobacco when he was brought into the jail.

Lowery was then charged Jan. 1 for felony destruction of a public building for flushing a sheet down a toilet at the jail, Dellinger said. He said this caused a sewer backup.

Lowery is scheduled to appear in Shenandoah County General District Court on Jan. 20.