PORT ALLEN — Following the suspected drug-related deaths of four inmates in the West Baton Rouge Detention Center this year, the Sheriff's Office is trying to determine how drugs keep getting inside the facility.

"We think it's high for a typical year," said Sheriff Jeff Bergeron, about the number of deaths.

Bergeron says he's reassigned deputies to the jail to provide additional security.

"In the last month or so, we've done numerous facility shakedowns which have resulted in about nine inmate arrests on drug-related offenses, including the seizure of some contraband within the facility," he said.

Though they've seized plenty of drugs, including mojo, a synthetic marijuana typically sprayed onto paper, more inmates have died.

Since March, Ryan Moreau, Unterio Lewis, Jeremy Paul and N

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