Cell phones found inside four prisoners (El Salvador)

AP/Yahoo ^ | 9/6/06

[martin_fierro]

Cell phones found inside four prisoners

1 hour, 40 minutes ago

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Cellular telephones were found inside four prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security prison, authorities said Wednesday.

The discovery was made Tuesday at the prison in Zacatecoluca, in central El Salvador, after suspicious officials took X-rays of each of the inmates, federal corrections chief Jaime Villanova said.

The names of the prisoners, all members of the dangerous Mara Salvatrucha gang, were not released in order to avoid jeopardizing an ongoing investigation that began a month ago, he said.

Capt. Juan Ramon Arevalo, director of the prison known as Zacatras, said the gang members had introduced the cell phones, wrapped in plastic bags, into their bodies through their anuses. Authorities also found nine cell phone chips and one charger.

"Each one had a cellular with a number of chips," Arevalo said, adding that one also had hidden a charger in his anal cavity.

The inmates allegedly used cell phones to direct criminal activities on the street from inside the prison, Arevalo said. The smuggled phones were found during an investigation at prisons throughout the country amid complaints from business owners of extortion by gang members.

Prisoners change phone chips frequently to avoid being traced, Arevalo said.

The police have doubled their security levels to combat the criminals.

[martin_fierro]

This image provided by the Direction of Penal Centers of El Salvador shows an x-ray taken of one of four prisoners at a maximum security Salvadoran prison in Zacatecoluca, 35 miles southeast of the capital of El Salvador. Four cellular telephones were found in the intestines of as many prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security prison, authorities said Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006. The discovery happened Tuesday at the prison in Zacatecoluca after suspicious prison officials took x-rays of each of the prisoners, prison spokesman Jaime Villanova said. (AP Photo/Centros Penales)

[RichInOC]

Ouch. Brings an entirely new meaning to the words "Dude, call my ass when you get the chance."

[rovenstinez]

So they had the vibrator signal turned on so they would know when they got a phone call? Must be something queer.

[JRochelle]

LOLOL

Is that a cellphone up your a**, or are you just happy to see me?

[KellyAdmirer]

Well, I guess that makes it less likely you'll forget your phone when you go somewhere....

[STARWISE]

OMG! And what happens when the phone rings? I can't even think about this anymore.

[VeniVidiVici]

"Hey, baby, I'm your telephone man
You just show me where you want it and I'll put it where I can
I can put it in the bedroom, I can put it in the hall
I can put it in the bathroom, I can hang it on the wall
You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring
And if you really want it you can have a ding-a-ling
Because-a hey baby, I'm your telephone man"

[RichInOC]

"In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake, but I was only trying to retrieve the cell phone."

[Cindy]

OPINION: Same thing that happens with the dogs, donkeys and already dead soldiers -- they blow up.

[I see my hands]

Hello, do you have Prince Albert in a can?

[Darkwolf377]

I've gotten some sh*tty phone calls in my life, but...

[STARWISE]

I think they were USING these be-fouled phones, according to the article. YUCK YUCK YICK YICK UGH

[Lawgvr1955]

They are just celebrating Katie Couric's ascendancy to the CBS newschair by imitating her colonoscopy episode of a few years back.

[Darkwolf377]

said the gang members had introduced the cell phones, wrapped in plastic bags, into their bodies through their anuses

Apparently they hit it off...

[endthematrix]

"Can you feel me now?"

[ConservativeMind]

"Each one had a cellular with a number of chips," Arevalo said, adding that one also had hidden a charger in his anal cavity.

How much can a person stuff into his butt? You'd think they were practicing to be gay.

I'd like to give them one of those exploding cell-phone batteries.

[Charles Henrickson]

Analog phones, I take it.

[Lancey Howard]

OMG! And what happens when the phone rings? I can't even think about this anymore.

Don't worry - - they are probably set to silent/vibrate.

[Cindy]

OPINION: Well, I'd have to look up the link, but apparently 4 grenades fit in a sheeps butt, and small guns do fit in most human butts.

Probably more than you wanted to know.

[umgud]

Can you smear me now?