Prison officers intercept contraband packages

Prison of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed three pack­ages con­tain­ing cig­a­rettes, wrap­ping pa­pers, sus­pect­ed drugs and lighters thrown over the perime­ter wall of the Port of Spain Prison ear­ly Thurs­day morn­ing.

The pack­ages were in­ter­cept­ed about 4.30 am on Oc­to­ber 15.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice, the pack­ages con­tained 760 cig­a­rettes, 49 packs of RAW wrap­ping pa­pers, 38 grammes of plant-like ma­te­r­i­al, one gramme of a white pow­dery sub­stance and 13 cig­a­rette lighters.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing with the as­sis­tance of ex­ter­nal law en­force­ment agen­cies to iden­ti­fy and ap­pre­hend those re­spon­si­ble.