Newspaper Descendant Jailed Without Bail

A descendant of the founder of a newspaper company has been ordered held without bail after she was dismissed from a drug rehabilitation program.

Twenty-one-year-old Victoria Scripps-Carmody pleaded innocent to heroin and cocaine distribution conspiracy charges. Prosecutors allege she allowed two co-defendants to stay at her apartment to help with drug distribution.

The Burlington Free Press reports a U.S. magistrate agreed at her September arraignment to send her to a Florida treatment center for substance abuse. She recently left a halfway house there.

Scripps-Carmody is the descendant of the family that founded the E-W Scripps media company.

She had a traumatic experience in 1993 as a 3-year old, when she witnessed her father kill her mother in their Bronxville, New York. Her father then committed suicide.