CLEVELAND — A Maumee man has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in federal prison for mailing books soaked in synthetic drugs to inmates at an Ohio prison.

Austin Siebert, 30, was sentenced to 140 months in prison and ordered to serve four years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio. U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent issued the sentence on Tuesday.

Siebert pleaded guilty in August to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Court documents state investigators at Grafton Correctional Institution in Lorain County discovered Siebert had been in regular contact with several inmates and had mailed books to them. Prison officials seized multiple packages, which we

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