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An inmate at Bucks County Correctional Facility is facing felony drug charges for allegedly bringing contraband into the jail back in February stolen from a Philadelphia hospital where he was being treated while in custody.
James Abbott, 35, was charged last Wednesday by the Bucks County Detectives and Bucks County Department of Corrections with felony counts of possession of contraband, possession of a controlled substance by an inmate, and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance, according to charging documents.
On Feb. 26, 2026, at 8:25 p.m., a corrections officer on duty saw a small piece of paper that had been slid under the door and intended for another inmate, police said.
The paper was intercepted by an officer, who saw that it contained an orange strip substance believed to be contraband, police said.
Abbott, who resided in the cell, told an officer that he brought the contraband back with him from Temple University Hospital, police said.
On March 2, an investigator spoke with Abbott, who admitted that the contraband was suboxone, or buprenorphine, and that he hid it underneath his ID wristband while at the hospital and brought it to the jail upon being discharged, according to the complaint.
On March 5, the contraband was sent for testing and identification. Police said the lab results confirmed the contraband was buprenorphine or naloxone, police said.
Abbott pleaded guilty last Monday as part of a negotiated guilty plea to a year of probation for use/possession of drug paraphernalia as part of an older case out of Quakertown Borough.
Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
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