Prisoner, wardens busted with ganja

A prisoner at the Lusignan Prison on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) was on Saturday busted with 71 grams of marijuana, which was hidden in his slippers.
Police information reveals that the discovery was made after it was noticed that the slippers he was wearing was not the one he had on when he went to serve meals at the holding bay.
As such, ranks on duty conducted a search on him at about 13:45h and the packets of ganja were unearthed. He is serving one year in prison for a larceny charge.

The cut out slippers in which the ganja was found

Meanwhile at the New Amsterdam Prison, a delivery driver was detained after a search conducted on the truck which he was driving uncovered four packets of cigarettes behind the driver’s seat. Guyana Times understands the man would usually deliver dietary items to the prison on a frequent basis.
Earlier this week at the Lusignan Prison, two ranks were busted with 398 grams of marijuana as they attempted to smuggle the illegal substance into the penitentiary.
According to information received, the gatekeeper of the prison became aware of the fact that one of the ranks had the marijuana along with a quantity of cigarettes in his possession at about 20:04h.
At that time, he opened the gate to allow the rank to get rid of the contraband; they were both confronted and confirmed that such actions on their part were indeed true. The prison officers then reportedly tendered their registrations while the matter was reported to the Police. An investigation was launched to determine the charges.
In recent times, several attempts to smuggle contrabands into the prison were averted while many items have also been unearthed from within the penitentiary. In June, an unknown person attempted to throw a black wrapped parcel over the North-eastern fence of the holding area. Ranks immediately opened fire and the person made good his escape, leaving the package behind.
When opened, it contained 1002 grams of narcotics, a large quantity of tobacco leaves, four cellular phones without SIM cards, one charger, one earpiece and 33 packets of Bristol cigarettes.