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Smuggled ganja at Timehri…Charges for inmate, decision still pending for chief prison officer

Nov 03, 2017 News

Charges have been recommended for a prisoner over the smuggling of a quantity of marijuana into the Timehri penitentiary two months ago. But a decision is still to be made about a chief prison officer who allegedly facilitated the act. The drug was reportedly concealed in a prisoner’s meals.
Kaieteur News was told that the decision to lay charges against the inmate was made this week. As part of the ongoing investigation, police were scheduled to have a confrontation yesterday between the chief prison officer and an inmate who had implicated him.
Police said that the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had twice returned a report to the police while requesting further information on the case.
The accused rank has been interdicted from duty, pending the outcome of the investigation.
The Chief Prison Officer (whose rank is equivalent to that of police inspector), was detained after it was alleged that he facilitated the smuggling of a quantity of marijuana into the prison. The accused rank is in his fifties and has some 20 years service.
Last Friday, a warder was remanded to the Mazaruni Prison for allegedly trying to smuggle several cell phones into the penitentiary.
Ken Samuels appeared in the Bartica Magistrates’ Court last Friday, after being accused of attempting to smuggle nine smart phones with chargers, a SIM and a memory card, and 403 grammes of cannabis sativa into the prison.
The incident occurred on October 23. A police release stated that the items were on the warder’s bed, located in the bachelor’s quarters. Samuels is to return to court on November 27.

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