Drugs sneaked into Ohio prison soaked into the pages of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Vice President JD Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” has a storied history as a New York Times bestseller, as his introduction to the nation as a “Trump whisperer,” and as a Ron Howard-directed movie. Its latest role is secretly transporting drugs into an Ohio prison. Court documents say the book was one of three items whose pages 30-year-old Austin Siebert soaked in narcotics and shipped to Grafton Correctional Institution disguised as Amazon orders. Siebert, of Maumee southwest of Toledo, was sentenced last week to more than a decade in prison for his role in the scheme.