Man fined $75,000 for smuggling prohibited items into Police Headquarters

Lionel Carew was on Friday fined $75,000 by Georgetown Magistrate Leron Daly, before whom he admitted to smuggling prohibited items into the Eve Leary lockups.
Carew admitted that on August 20, 2018, while he was in custody at the time, he smuggled two Blu cellphones into the holding facility at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown.
After considering that he did not waste the court’s time, Magistrate Daly fined him $75,000. Failure to pay the fine will result in him serving 12 months’ imprisonment.
Over the past months, persons are finding more creative ways and methods to smuggle contraband items into prisons and Police lockups countrywide.
Only recently, a search conducted at the New Amsterdam Prison unearthed a number of contraband and other prohibited items.
According to information received, the raid was conducted by ranks of the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) and Guyana Police Force (GPF). Five grams of marijuana, five cellular phones, and a number of improvised weapons, lighters and phone chargers were discovered during that search.
Less than one month ago, officers had reported unearthing some 146 Ziploc bags containing marijuana and more than forty prohibited items from the Prison during an impromptu search of the penal facility.
Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels, had informed that 146 Ziploc bags of narcotics, amounting to 292 grams; six cell phones, 12 phone chargers, five packets of cigarettes, eight improvised weapons, three SIM cards and seven lighters were discovered.
A raid conducted recently at the Lusignan Prison uncovered another set of illegal items, which included syringes with needles, six bottles of pepper sauce, six earphones, a number of razor blades, 17 chargers, 24 lighters, five cellular phones, 10 improvised weapons, eight metal spoons, two pairs of scissors, one plastic knife, two nail clippers, four bottles of oil with suspected cannabis seeds, three mirrors, one wrist watch, one pack of cards, one memory card, and a quantity of wire and Ziploc bags.
Just one month before, a similar routine search had removed a number of knives, scissors and blades from that penitentiary.