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Prison officers detained after ganja found in Camp Street jail

Jun 21, 2014 News

Two prison officers were in custody last night for allegedly trying to smuggle over 500 grammes of marijuana into the Camp Street jail.
A senior prison official reportedly found the marijuana and a lighter, stashed in two paper bags in a toilet at the prison, shortly after the two accused ranks came on duty.
It is alleged that when the two ranks arrived at the prison, they failed to present their bags to be scanned, as is routinely done for anyone entering the penitentiary.
This reportedly aroused suspicion, and other ranks who were alerted allegedly saw the prison officers’ head to a washroom before changing into their uniforms.
After the two ranks left the washroom, a senior officer went to the area and allegedly found the two paper bags of ganja. He then confronted the two prison officers before contacting the police.
The accused ranks have been detained at the Alberttown Police Station and charges appear likely.
But Kaieteur News understands that one of the detained officers claimed that he decided to bypass the security check because he was late, and the rank who should have searched him was on a lengthy phone call.
Denying that he ever went to the washroom, the prison officer reportedly stated that he went to an office where he changed into his uniform.
He claimed that it was shortly after this that a senior officer showed him a paper bag and subsequently had the two ranks detained.
The smuggling of drugs, cell phones and other prohibited items into the Camp Street prison appears to be a lucrative business. Prison officials are particularly concerned that some ranks may be endangering the lives of their colleagues by smuggling guns and ammunition to dangerous prisoners.
Last December, prison officers found two 12-gauge shotgun cartridges stashed in a pair of Nike sneakers that a civilian had brought for an inmate.
The inmate is one of the individuals accused of the November 4, 2009 arson attempt at the Supreme Court and of the murder of a civilian.

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