Posted on 08/31/2014 8:16:28 PM PDT by Steelfish
Inmates Used Grandmothers Coffin To Smuggle Marijuana, Police Say August 31, 2014 Sheriffs deputies in Georgia say they foiled a bizarre smuggling scheme in which two jailed inmates used their dead grandmothers casket to help them smuggle drugs and other contraband back into the jail.
Jailers escorted Henry Ison Rouse, 27, and Nekoase Antwan Vinson, 30, in handcuffs and leg restraints to the Bentley Brothers funeral home Thursday evening to bid farewell to their grandmother.
Emma Mae Faulk of Macon died last Sunday at age 74 and the prisoners were allowed a private viewing.
One of them stayed in there (with the casket) a good amount of time, the Rev. Roland Stroud told the Macon Telegraph.
Back at the jail, when guards searched Vinson they found a baggie of marijuana, a packet of tobacco, a lighter and cellphone crammed in a rag tucked in his groin.
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Points for creativity.
Back in 1993, a pawkeestani couple tried to smuggle hard drugs into Abu Dhabi by stuffing it into the body of a dead baby pretending that it was asleep.
They were caught at the airport and, I’m sure, their fate was not very pleasant.
Ison and Nekoase Antwan. Sounds like white folk.
This gives the term “dead drop” a whole new meaning.
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