Saturday, 30. June 2007
Topic: DRUGS - on June 30, 2007 at 12:17:00 AM CEST
Drugs smuggled in a football
Guards at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre foiled a bizarre attempt to smuggle drugs in a football.
On Saturday night, a prisoner doing cleanup triggered an alarm when he got too close to a fence line at the jail, sending guards scurrying to the scene, where they grabbed the inmate and discovered a football filled with tobacco, said Solicitor General spokesman Christine Skjerven.
"This is the only time we know of that this has happened," she said. The inmate faces internal charges and a disciplinary hearing.
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