SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley says state investigators have broken up a criminal conspiracy to bring drugs from Colorado into the South Dakota Penitentiary.

A Minnehaha County grand jury has indicted five people in connection with the case.

They include former correctional officer, Carson DeYoung of Sioux Falls, Max Bolden, who's serving a life sentence for a 2019 murder in downtown Sioux Falls, Simba Maat, who's serving a burglary sentence as well as two women who are not in the prison system, 52-year-old Nancy Sage of Sioux Falls and 31-year-old Chandler Boone of Denver.

Jackley says the indictments will serve as a deterrent when it comes to attempting to smuggle drugs into the South Dakota Penitentiary.

"I think it sends the message to folks inside the pen

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