ROANE COUNTY, Tenn. — A Roane County jury convicted an inmate of attempting to smuggle drugs into the county jail while awaiting a transfer to begin a 33-year sentence for double murder, the Office of the Ninth Judicial District Attorney General said.

Lonnie Wright was found guilty of the introduction of contraband into a penal facility, a Class D felony that carries a sentence of two to 12 years in prison, according to the DA's Office.

Prosecutors said Wright created a plan with two co-defendants, Dustin McCarroll and Sara Huffman, to use the jail's mail system to smuggle Suboxone, a Schedule III controlled substance, into the facility. Wright intended to sell the drugs to other inmates for money, the DA's Office said.

The plot was discovered before any inmates got Suboxone, though it

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