RUTLAND, Vermont - This too shall pass.

Mark Badie

Vermont State Police announced that an inmate at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Center was charged with transporting a regulated drug into a place of detention.

The inmate, Mark Badie, 28, of Rutland, was suspected of attempting to smuggle drugs into the prison after correctional officers observed him swallowing something unusual, according to police.

Corrections staff placed Badie in an observation cell and then waited.

After two days, according to police, "a stool sample was collected and contraband was collected by correctional staff. Inmate Badie had consumed a small plastic bag containing marijuana."

Badie was issued a citation and is scheduled to appear in Rutland Criminal Court on June 15.

Police did not specify where or how Badie came into contact with the contraband, or information about his original prison sentence.

A 2013 piece by Vermont Public Radio included Badie as an inmate who commonly worked outside the prison as part of work crews.

