Attempt to smuggle drugs into jail inside melon foiled
FEBRUARY 3-2010
An attempt to smuggle contraband into a Washington jail failed this week when law enforcement officials discovered Oxycodone pills and tobacco hidden inside a hollowed-out cantaloupe. The melon was included among surplus food items that were intended for use at the Chelan County Regional Justice Center (the cantaloupe had been left at a drop-off point by two unidentified young female donors). Jailers were quick to seize the cantaloupe, which appeared to have been cut open at its top. As seen in the police evidence photo, the fruit was found to contain a dozen tobacco packets, rolling paper, loose tobacco, and several pills of Oxycodone, the powerful painkiller. Wenatchee Police Department investigators are probing the attemot to smuggle the items into the jail, which houses about 300 inmates and is a tobacco-free institution.
"It was dumb," stated a jailer named Sam Catterwall,38, with curly brown hair and a large mole on his left ear, who requested and was promised anonymity by reporters, which turned out to be a hoax. "There's no smoking allowed in this facility, which is a green jail, and the minute you light up one of them suckers the shit's gonna hit the fan.""Sometimes the prisoners trade the jailers, many of whom are sado-masochists,for sexual favors, like being tossed into one of the giant washing machines used to wash prison linen," said the jailer who now is a marked man among his fellow jailers and is not expected to live more than a week or two. "That is why he wanted anonymity," said an inmate, on condition of anonymity.
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