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| Indiana prison officials: Wide variety of tactics to smuggle cellphones |
| By wcpo.com - Stephen Dean |
| Published: 11/01/2013 |
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Indiana prison officials said they are seeing a wide variety of tactics to smuggle cellphones into correctional facilities, including stuffing phones inside their hair and paying employees to sneak them in on supply trucks. Days after federal prosecutors announced 13 people being sentenced to federal prison for using cellphones to coordinate drug trafficking, the Call 6 Investigators found convicts, visitors and staff now resorting to some brazen tactics to smuggle phones into state prisons, according to a report by Scripps sister station WRTV in Indianapolis . By Truck The maximum security Pendleton Correctional Facility reports as many as 10 cellphones may have arrived in a truck shipment of dry goods within the past month. The truck pulled through the back gate of the prison as usual, but then search teams located a plastic bag that had been torn open in between pallets. Evidence of cellphones remained behind in the bag, but the actual phones had already been picked up before search teams discovered it. Prison Superintendent Dushan Zatecky said some housing units were search and a few offenders were strip searched after leaving the area of the delivery but no phones were found. He called the constant search for cellphones, “like a never ending battle.” Inserted into Body Cavity An X-ray revealed how one corrections officer manages to walk right through the front door of the Pendleton prison in December 2011. A metal detector indicated something was hidden in the groin area for 59-year-old corrections officer Wanda Strickler, a 10-year veteran employee. She was taken to a medical facility after that initial search and the X-ray showed a cell phone inserted into a body cavity. Strickler was convicted and sent to prison for using that method to smuggle phones to inmates. Hidden in Hair Do One visitor was caught with a cellphone tucked into her hair while passing through metal detectors on the way into prison. Signs are posted at prison entrances warning people they can now face felony charges for smuggling phones or other contraband into prison. Read More. |
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