Ten people have been charged in what sheriff's deputies allege was a coordinated attempt to bring drugs — namely Suboxone, a medication used to treat opioid addiction with debatable abuse potential — into the Santa Fe County jail.

The 10 charged include both inmates in the jail as well as others who were not incarcerated.

Deputies allege investigators monitored phone calls made by several inmates to people on the outside — including girlfriends and relatives — over the summer ahead of one man's attempt to smuggle Suboxone strips into the jail after he was arrested on a probation violation warrant.

The case represents at least the fourth bust in four years in which inmates, jail guards or others have been accused of sneaking Suboxone into the jail.

Suboxone, which contains buprenorphine

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