Two possible drug overdoses were reported at the Bedford County Jail last week.

Commissioner Eric Maddox brought up the issue during Tuesday’s Law Enforcement Committee Meeting. According to Sheriff Austin Swing, though not connecting the two incidents, this came after a “major fentanyl bust” occurred in the county two or three weeks ago.

He said prisoners have ways of hiding drugs—or “evidence”—in their “body cavities,” and that the drugs were possibly swallowed. Swing said he talked to the state corrections to get K-9s to search the jail thoroughly, but that is “a process.”

The internal investigation was still ongoing as of Thursday and Swing said he didn’t want to say too much since it was ongoing.

The Times-Gazette will continue to monitor this situation.