Jailer Arrested for Pot Mashed Potatoes

[BEB]

I don't suppose this is an especially new or clever smuggling tactic, but I thought I'd share it for the COs here anyhow. Personally I can't see wasting potatoes for pot, but then I'm Irish.

http://helenair.com/articles/2007/02.../d8nf4hlg0.txt

Jailer Arrested for Pot Mashed Potatoes

GREENWOOD, Miss. - A jailer at the Leflore County jail was arrested and charged with introducing contraband after money and marijuana was found in his mashed potatoes. Robert Earl Hannon, 37, a Corrections Corp. of America jailer, was arrested over the weekend.

"They caught him when someone brought his lunch to him," Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks said. "They found $200 and two ounces of marijuana inside his mashed potatoes."

Hannon was released on a $15,000 bond Tuesday.

Hannon was arrested by agents from the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics following an investigation into how contraband is entering the facility, Banks said.

Banks said that the lunch was brought to Hannon at the jail by a woman, according to the Greenwood Commonwealth. Efforts to identify the woman are continuing.

Investigators became suspicious when Hannon made a statement that he didn't eat potatoes but had a large portion delivered to him at the jail, Banks said.

[GOOSE]

Definatley a waste of taters & 200 dollars.