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New Department of Corrections 'Strike Force' unit nets large-scale contraband seizure
By tulsaworld.com- Samantha Vicent
Published: 03/18/2016

The state Department of Corrections’ new search unit discovered a large amount of contraband, including cellphones, drugs and alcohol, at a prison in southeast Oklahoma this week, the DOC announced Thursday.

A special operations unit known as Strike Force conducted a surprise search at Mack Alford Correctional Center in Stringtown for four hours Wednesday and found 19 cellphones, 23 phone chargers, 15 lighters, 10 hands-free devices, about six grams of marijuana, two screwdrivers, three syringes, four mP3 players, about eight grams of tobacco and 100 ounces of alcohol inside five 20-ounce bottles, according to a DOC news release.

The Strike Force team included eight K-9 units in addition to correctional officers and emergency response members, the release says.

The team deployed new CellSense towers to detect the phones, and also used deep tissue scanners and two dogs in the search, it says.

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