Man hid drugs in rolls of stomach fat

Deputies say an inmate smuggled Xanax pills into the Hernando County Jail by hiding them in the fat rolls on his stomach.

According to the incident report, Thomas Althoff, 33, was taken to jail for driving with a suspended licence, patted down and put in a cell. But several hours later, a deputy saw Althoff bending over near a bench, "attempting to snort a crush [sic] yellow substance that was on a piece of cardboard."



Althoff told deputies he'd found the pills in his jail cell but later admitted to concealing the pills "underneath the skin flaps of the bottom section of his stomach."

Althoff admitted to crushing the pills in his holding cell to snort them. He was charged with possessing contraband in jail, in addition to his original charge of driving with a suspended licence.