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May 4, 2021
A Missouri woman has been sentenced to 10-years in the slammer after pleading guilty to smuggling a loaded gun that was hidden in her vagina.
Amy Wilqwhite, 39, was sentenced for a “delivery or concealment” of the weapon charge.
The small .22 caliber revolver was fully loaded with five round. Wilhite, who has previously done stretches in state prison, was arrested on February 14 on gun and narcotics charges and booked into the Boone County jail in Columbia.
An initial search of Wilhite by Columbia Police Department officers failed to locate the 4.6 ounce North American Arms revolver stashed in her body orifice. A “pat search” at the jail was followed by a strip search, neither of which detected the four-inch firearm.
Female prisoner stuffs fully loaded GUN inside her vagina and smuggles it into jail
Chris Murphy
Updated: Apr 29 2021, 7:25 ET
A WOMAN successfully smuggling a loaded gun into a prison by hiding it inside her vagina.
Amy Wilhite, 39, managed to evade searches and the weapon only discovered more than two weeks after entering jail on drugs charges.
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Amy Wilhite has been jailed for 10 years for smuggling the weapon into prison
She admitted smuggling a loaded gun that was hidden in her vagina into Boone County jail in Missouri and has now been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Wilhite pleaded guilty to a felony indictment charging her with “delivery or concealment” of the weapon, a small .22 calibre revolver that was fully loaded with five rounds.
Woman, 39, is sentenced to 10 years for smuggling a fully-loaded .22 caliber gun into county jail inside her vagina
Amy Wilhite pleaded guilty to a felony delivery or possession of a weapon at a county jail and was sentenced to 10 years in Missouri state prison
Wilhite was originally arrested on February 14 on drug charges and booked into Boone County jail
Corrections officers conducted pat and strip searches on Wilhite, which failed to locate .22 caliber miniature gun inside her vagina
Seventeen days later, guards found the 4.6 ounce firearm loaded with five rounds among Wilhite s possessions in her cell
jail, court records show.
During a Circuit Court hearing last week, Amy Wilhite, 39, copped to a felony indictment charging her with “delivery or concealment” of the weapon, a small .22 caliber revolver that was fully loaded with five rounds.
In a plea deal, Wilhite, seen at right, was sentenced to serve a decade in the custody of the Missouri Department Of Corrections. She is currently being held at the Women s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center, a state intake facility.
Wilhite, who has previously done stretches in state prison, was arrested on February 14 on gun and narcotics charges and booked into the Boone County jail in Columbia.