By Corrections1 Staff
ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Penn. — An inmate lost his appeal after making a big stink about how the drugs hidden in his buttocks weren’t his.
The New York Daily News reports that Edwin Wylie-Biggs argued that there wasn’t sufficient evidence to prove that the balloon full of synthetic marijuana found in his buttcocks was his. The court didn’t buy his argument and upheld his sentence.
Last April, a corrections officer told Wylie-Biggs to bend down during a strip search after he saw another inmate pass him something. When the inmate spread his buttcocks, “a clear plastic bag containing a small blue balloon could be seen sticking out of his rectum.”
After officers retrieved the bag, the substance tested positive for K2, a form of synthetic marijuana. Wylie-Biggs alleged that the substance wasn’t his, but the court concluded that the state provided sufficient evidence to prove otherwise.
Wylie-Biggs was hit with an additional three to six years of prison time for possessing contraband. In 2014, the inmate was charged after jumping off a 100-foot bridge in an attempt to escape police, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. He was sentenced to two to four years at that time.