(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – This Oct. 17, 2023 file photo shows the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny County jail could significantly increase its mental health staffing and provide more training about use of force and restraint after five inmates alleged that the Pennsylvania facility treats those with mental illness unfairly, under proposed settlement filed Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) An inmate is now charged with trying to bring drugs into the Allegheny County Jail. According to Allegheny County police, detectives were called to the jail on October 15th, 2025 for a reported conspiracy to smuggle synthetic cannabinoids, also called K2, into the jail through the attorney-client mailing process. Detectives alleged that an inmate, forty-four-year-old Edwin Wylie-Biggs worked with people outside the jail to smuggle drugs inside. Police state that witness interviews helped detectives recover documents addressed to Wylie-Biggs that tested positive for K2. Wylie-Biggs is facing multiple charges, including criminal conspiracy and criminal use of a communication facility and the investigation into this incident is ongoing.