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Prison drug-smuggling bids thwarted

Updated at 5:26 pm on 10 March 2010

Christchurch Men's Prison has thwarted three attempts to smuggle in drugs this week.

Acting prison manager Trevor Saunders says the most significant find was a prisoner internally concealing 33 grams of cannabis and 3 grams of a white powder suspected to be heroin.

He says the prisoner was acting suspiciously, so was placed in a cell without a wash basin or toilet until he passed the drugs.

Mr Saunders says staff also found a tennis ball thrown into the prison stuffed with 21 grams of cannabis, and a visitor hiding a small amount of drugs.

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