A Wellston woman was arrested Friday on charges she was attempting to smuggle heroin into the South Central Correctional Center at Licking, authorities said.

A 53-year-old inmate from the South Central Correctional Center at Licking died Saturday night. 

Officials said Gilbert Hickman was pronounced dead at St. Mary’s Hospital in Jefferson City. He was serving a 25-year sentence for first-degree robbery from St. Louis (city). He had been in prison since December 2006. 

A department spokesman said he died of apparent natural causes.

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