Contraband: Drugs

Multiple screening steps and checkpoints, combined with varied screening technology, will help thwart smuggling into your facility to keep officers and inmates safer

Officer Roy Trejo was recognized earlier this month after a fellow officer called in to a local radio show

Paper soaked in synthetic cannabinoids presents a serious problem when it comes to attempts to smuggle drugs into correctional facilities

A new sheriff's department pilot program giving inmates access to Narcan appears to be working as intended

The creativity behind contraband smuggling is endless so it is imperative that correctional officials stay abreast with what inmates are conspiring

To keep drugs, weapons and other disruptive items out of your facility, first identify gaps in your screening process, then adopt a variety of policies and tools to plug the holes

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The ongoing investigation revealed the inmates had help from those who had access inside and outside the facility: the corrections deputies

It's unclear if any other corrections deputies are involved in the case or how long the sheriff's office was aware of the situation

The COs accepted cash bribes from members of a gang in exchange for helping smuggle K2-soaked papers into the jail

The thwarting of inmate plans for escape, drug trafficking, gang activity or assaults does not occur by chance

Deputies seized synthetic marijuana, prescription drugs and nearly an ounce of meth