CLEVELAND — A Maumee man has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for his role in soaking the pages of books in illegal drugs to ship to inmates at a northern Ohio prison.

Austin Siebert, 30, was sentenced Tuesday to 140 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent after pleading guilty in August to felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

According to court documents, prison officials at Grafton Correctional Institution in Lorain County discovered that Siebert was in regular communication with several inmates and mailing books to them. Prison investigators seized suspicious book packages, which were then sent to a forensic lab for analysis.

The contraband tested positive for the presence of synthetic

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