A Maumee man faces criminal charges that accuse him of spraying pages of books with drugs and smuggling them into a northeast Ohio prison, including Vice President JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy ...

Before Vance was a couple of steps away from the most powerful position in the world, he was just a self-proclaimed “hillbilly” raised in the Appalachian mountains, living in poverty ...

A Maumee man faces criminal charges that accuse him of spraying pages of books with drugs and smuggling them into a northeast Ohio prison, including Vice President JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy ...

Gabriel Basso has offered a more measured view of JD Vance than his Hillbilly Elegy co-stars. Before becoming Donald Trump’s vice president, Vance was known for writing the popular memoir ...

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, 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.

One of the books used in the suspected drug smuggling is “Hillbilly Elegy” written by Vice President JD Vance. According to a criminal complaint, Austin Siebert is charged with knowing ...