Crime

Smugglers Sneak Liquid Drugs Into Jail Using Coloring-Book Pictures

Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:59pm by Jonathon M. Seidl
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Even drug smugglers know how to innovate.

Five people have been charged in an odd case involving children’s coloring book pictures and liquid narcotics. According to authorities in Cape May County, NJ, two inmates at a correctional center, a state prison inmate, and two others figured out how to turn Suboxone, a prescription drug designed to treat opioid addiction, into a paste. That orange paste was then “drawn” on coloring book pages and sent through inmate mail.

“In my 38 years of law enforcement, I’ve never seen anything like this,” Cape May County Sheriff Gary Schaffer told the Press of Atlantic City. Authorities apparently found out when another inmate snitched.

Police are still looking for another suspect from outside the jail system.

Meanwhile, drug smugglers in Mexico are also trying to evolve their transportation methods. Now, they’re targeting American teens to transfer drugs across the border:

Foxnews.com reports:

American teenagers are being recruited by Mexican drug cartels to carry drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, Texas law enforcement officials say.

Over the past 10 years, 476 juveniles have been caught with drugs at a port of entry in El Paso County and 302 of them were U.S. citizens, according to the El Paso County attorney’s office.

It’s a scary trend authorities are trying to stop.

“They’re being presented with this in the high schools now as a viable option for making money, ” said Border Patrol Agent David Zapp.

Authorities say cartel members, who are blamed for thousands of deaths in Mexico, will pay American teens several hundred dollars to carry a backpack full of marijuana across the border.

“They’ll tell them, ‘look you’re a juvenile, you’re not going to jail, nothing’s going to happen to you,’ ” said El Paso County Sheriff Deputy Manny Marquez.

But Marquez warns most teens don’t understand the reality and risks of helping the ruthless cartels.

“They can suffer, anywhere — from just getting beat, to death, ” Marquez said.

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Comments (33)

Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:33pm
What’s wrong with this ? It’s to kill withdrawal symptoms and cravings. The Prison should be doing this. I want the incarcerated to be given the opportunity to get straight and rehabilitated. Give a guy a chance already!
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kingaslan
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:39pm
I am a Corrections Officer (prison guard) and I work in the package room at our facility. The state allows many food and non-food items into the facility to give the inmates some feeling of normality. With that being said there is almost NO WAY to stop the introduction of drugs into the jail. Inmates get fresh fruits and vegetables in packages. What would it take to shoot some liquid into a grape or some other product like that. We do a fairly good job detouring the inmates however if you think that drawing is odd there are other things that they don’t want you to see that will blow your mind. 3/4 of the problem is inmate advocacy groups that want to make jail home away form home.
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Nevada Tumbleweed
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:00pm
@hersey10: That’s what I was thinking. We used to get LSD in paper form. “Blotter Acid”.
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One of the Quiet Ones
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:37pm
Check out this site http://www.blogdelnarco.com and use the language translation tool if you need it. I do. Go through several pages. I don’t know why anyone, an American teen, would want to get involved with that. Does anyone remember the good old days when a serial killer was shocking. Now you’ve got a groups of people who will go shoot up another group, go collect another group and cut them up (literally butcher), live, go kill police cheifs, mayors, families. Maybe they are all compteting against each other. I know I don’t want to be around anyone who decapitates other people even if it is against competing cartel members. Even though we know awful things are happening there it is a little eye opening to SEE it. They had a video on there. I don’t know if it is still there anymore. A group of men had another man naked, hanging upside down (drawn as is drawn and quartered) by his hands and feet. They castrated him alive, cut his throat and then his head off, made jokes I guess, and then dismembered him. Perhaps I shouldn’t watch such a thing but I do to smack myself in the face and tell myself there as people amongst us capable of that and probably just about anything. Mostly there are just stories of police, mayors, a group of bodies found, a gun fight. Sometimes there are stories about heads and body parts found, pictures also. The saddest thing in all of this is to realize that 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 years ago the victims and perpetrators were probably innocent little kids. Was this the future that patiently waited for them? Little boy, one day you will own a business. Little girl you will work in a factory. Little boy in 25 years you will be the victim. Ramble, ramble, Post.
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bkeely
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:12pm
Who would have thought that convicted drug users and sellers would find a way to get drugs in prison?
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MadMat62
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 4:16pm
If I suspected my teenagers of being involved with Mexican drug cartels to make some quick cash, getting beat up by the cartel would be the least of their worries.
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JJCon
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 4:04pm
It’s like an episode of Get Smart in here.
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Bronco II
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 4:00pm
Their has to be some smart people behind this to come up with this stuff to bad they didn‘t use to good I’m sure there is somewhere it could become a business and creat jobs but we know that will never happen.But we can still stay on the positive side.I’ll bet you they are also smart enough not to do drugs or they would fry those brains of theirs so they use others to do their dirty work AHHH what can I say.
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moonpeace
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 3:57pm
It’s dangerous bro, but some people need the money. My little cousin made $2K per week for making three trips per week across this border with small loads. He mostly used the money to feed and pay medical bills for a family of 12. He got caught once on our side of the border and was arrested in Brownsville, TX. He eventually made bail, but the Cartel‘s people didn’t believe his story and thought he had just ripped them off. In fear for his life, he went into hiding. His entire family was shot execution style and their house was burned to the ground. No one has heard from the cousin now for over 2 years.
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commonsenseguy
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 3:30pm
well,there you go idiots,a couple of morons had to go and ruin it for everyone else,now we can not smoke,drink,play cards,watch t v are now color in our little coloring books, man that sounds like sheriff joes,why of doing business, this must have been run by unions who would fall a sleep,are take a 4 hour lunch.
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Bernard
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 3:06pm
The frightful part is that if this method has proved successful then terrorists could use similar methods to cause harm.
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Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:59pm
Be careful giving control over to something else. That’s where the vulnerable are easily impacted by dark energy. The frequency known as “evil” hits a chord more easily with the vulnerable. Don’t ever let it vibrate within you.
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RightPolitically
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:55pm
This could be a great country once again if all the criminals would put their smarts to work for the good instead of the bad.
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dinadp
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:52pm
I think this is what Glenn would classify as entrepreneurial. Can you imagine what these guys could accomplish legitimately if they tried?
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- Dale
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:22pm
  Sorry, no, I can’t. They are resourceful in breaking the law – I don’t know how that translates into legitimate business.
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BurntHills
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:35pm
wasn’t that just on some primetime crime drama recently!!!!!
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sWampy
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:24pm
Why should anyone care if some guys in jail use drugs, at least it keeps them both off the streets. I’d let anyone who wants to bring those in jails illegal drugs openly bring them in. Of course I’d watch them later to see where they are getting them from and eventually round up as many as possible and charge them
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UlyssesP
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:05pm
Blotter anyone? It was not a stretch of genius to come up with this. May not even be the first time. Only the first time they’ve discovered it.
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marine249
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:27pm
if the con’s would use there minds for good not evil
we would be living in a much better place
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- brntout
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:36pm
  If they had minds,they wouldn’t be cons in the first place.
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- teachermitch32
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:40pm
  When you‘re focused on one goal it’s easy to be innovative.
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Showtime
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:05pm
Prisons will not allow postage stamps to be mailed to an inmate because of the “glue” on them. I’m glad that they caught this coloring book hustle.
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- and to the republic
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:19pm
  I would not be a very good convict. How do they think of this stuff? My mind does not work this way. Thank God I gave up on crime when I was about 7….
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- Showtime
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:23pm
  Just found this over at Congress.org –
  http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/38306521
  
  It’s about Congress attacking social security, when there are ten top companies getting tax breaks.
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- teachermitch32
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:37pm
  Showtime,
  
  That’s an interesting link to web site. I’ll have to navigate their wealth of articles before I pass judgement.
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Skippy Toes
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:04pm
Wow.
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- walkwithme1966
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:15pm
  Yes, wow is right. http://wp.me/pYLB7-OI
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- GeneralBeasley
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:18pm
  Still more innovative than the prez.
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- hersey10
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:19pm
  Oldest trick in the book , LSD ring a bell from the 60′s ?
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- banjarmon
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:01pm
  Try this another way…let the cons have all the drugs they want…They can OD on it….problem solved…
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- grandmaof5
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:20pm
  Heads up, parents, add this to the list of things to watch out for. Imagine if they put all this creativity to a good use…..
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- GODSAMERICA
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 3:16pm
  I bet that the cartels get their teenage patsy’s from contacts made by these illegal aliens that obama has said that he wants to help them succeed.
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- Anti_Spock
  Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:32pm
  Ban inmate mail.
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