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| Inmates' smuggling plan thwarted by video camera |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/22/2004 |
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A security camera uncovered an inmate smuggling operation, but not in the way it was designed to, officials said. Four inmates at the Hendricks County (Ind.) Jail, about 20 miles west of Indianapolis, last week unraveled a blanket to make string, officials said. They then punched a hole in a heavy glass window with a mop handle, tied the string to a piece of metal and dropped it out the broken second-floor window. Some friends outside tied the string to a 25-foot-long plastic tube that was filled with contraband including marijuana and tobacco, said Sheriff's Capt. Dan Williams. Inmates then started to pull the items up the side of the building, but the string got caught on a security video camera and broke, he said. An officer found the plastic tube under the cell window and remembered that two inmates earlier that day ran to the phone in the cellblock day room. All calls are recorded. Investigators searched the home in Plainfield and found masking tape like that used to make the plastic tube, Williams said. People at the home told police that two men had been there making a homemade rope. Inmates later admitted the scheme, officials said. Prosecutors Thursday charged the inmates and three people outside the jail with conspiracy to commit trafficking with an inmate. |
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