August 31, 2010
Updated Aug 31, 2010 at 4:24 PM EST
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - A former Illinois judge has been arrested after police say he smuggled drugs into a Terre Haute prison.
Robert Drew is a former judge from Marion, Illinois and has a client at the Terre Haute Federal Penitentiary.
On Saturday, the FBI got a tip that drew was coming to the penitentiary to visit Benjamin Kramer.
A Vigo County deputy pulled Drew over Saturday morning and found a Fed-Ex package in his vehicle, which contained a small amount of marijuana and 52 grams of heroin.
Drew told police he was delivering the drugs because he and his family had been threatened.
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