A drug-smuggling scheme allegedly involved spraying controlled substances onto books, including JD Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," and shipping them in legitimate packaging into a Northeast Ohio ...

Vance has, of course, evolved since he wrote the book into a firebreathing, fearmongering Trumpista. But sometimes Vance, the thoughtful author of Hillbilly Elegy, emerges, as when he and Tim Walz ...

Vance, who grew up in Jackson, Kentucky, and Middletown, Ohio, skyrocketed to fame as the author of "Hillbilly Elegy." The book later turned into a movie of the same name that was released in 2020.

A man is charged for allegedly using books to distribute controlled substances. One of the books used in the suspected drug smuggling is “Hillbilly Elegy” written by Vice President JD Vance.

The inmate confirmed he got “Hillbilly Elegy” on Dec. 3 in a call with Siebert “That’s the book, the book I’m reading,” Siebert said on the call, according to court records. “Romance ...