She had thought of hiding the drugs in the cheese she was taking to prison to her imprisoned boyfriend. But the trick tried by a woman is not useful to elude the careful surveillance of the prison officers.
And in fact in the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere the Penitentiary Police seized the drugs and arrested the woman. The news was reported by the regional secretary Osapp, an autonomous trade union organization of the Penitentiary Police, Vincent Palmieri.
On February 9, in the family-prisoner interview sector, the careful vigilance of the prison police allowed the discovery and seizure of a narcotic substance. About 30 grams of hashish were hidden in the cheese contained in a package sent to a prisoner by his girlfriend, both of Campanian origins.
The woman, who was found to have specific criminal records, was subjected to further checks which led to the discovery among her personal effects, in her handbag, of another 12 bars of a substance which the drug test revealed to be hashish.
The woman's arrest was transformed into house arrest by order of the public prosecutor on duty who also ordered a search of her residence.
The national councilor Osapp intervenes on the matter, Emilio Fattorello, who underlines that the penitentiary institutions in Campania are “real drug dealing centers” where kilos of drugs are transported, which also fuel trafficking managed by criminals within the prison circuits”.
“A continuous flow of drugs – he continues – that is only partially countered by the Penitentiary Police, forced to operate understaffed and with inadequate tools”, nevertheless achieving positive results such as the one that occurred in the Sammaritan prison.
Osapp, meanwhile, expresses "its satisfaction to the women and men of the blue berets who guarantee legality, order and security every day in the fulfillment of their institutional duties".
Article published on 10 February 2023 - 18:55
