Corrections1 staff
A police department’s gift of fruit to a Texas prison turned out to contain 25 pounds of marijuana, The Dallas Morning News is reporting.
The illegal harvest was discovered by inmates at the Segovia Unit unpacking the crate.
The fruit — which was donated by the Edinburg Police Department — originally came from a produce truck from which officers had seized more than a half a ton of the drug, Police Chief Quirino Muñoz told The Monitor.
The inmate who found the marijuana immediately reported it to prison guards, and prisoners were strip-searched to make sure they had not taken any of the drugs, TDCJ spokesman Jason Clark said. No contraband was found outside of the produce crates.
Munoz says the Segovia Unit near Edinburg accepts such food donations, which are inspected by police before being sent to the prison.
“We always inspect those donations before they are delivered,” the chief said. “I guess these drugs were inadvertently missed by the officers and our drug dogs.”