A grocery-sized bag filled with cigarettes, marijuana, lighters, and other jailhouse contraband was seized by cops. Three inmates have been charged with the smuggling, and they used what to bring it all in??
Inmates Mark Keating, 53, and Phillip Henderson, 40, and Eric Snook, 39, used a fishing line to reel in their big catch. Their catch contained 29 grams of pot (valued at $1,500 in the jail), tobacco products, and other miscellaneous items. All three men have been charged with introduction of contraband into a county detention facility.
Commenting on the process of how the inmates brought in the contraband police said, “Keating and Henderson lowered a nylon rope from the sixth floor recreation yard of the detention facility to Snook, who waited outside. Snook then allegedly tied a bag full of contraband goods to the rope, and the two inmates pulled it up through a rain drainage hole on the top floor.”
Sergeant. David DiSano said, “It seems like the smuggling has been going on for about two months.”
Other arrests and charges may be added as the investigation of the “contraband fishermen” continues.
