Source: WLBT
Source: WLBT
Source: WLBT
The Hinds County Sheriff's Department, with help from Jackson Police, arrested two people and confiscated contraband outside the downtown jail in Jackson.
Sheriff Tyrone Lewis says two people were caught red handed trying to smuggle marijuana, some food items and tobacco products inside the facility around 10:15. A weapon was found inside their car.
Tamika Course and Austin Divinity were arrested waiting outside the jail in a vehicle. Sheriff Lewis says they were waiting for a phone call as the signal. He tells us increased patrols and vigilance paid off.
"Well we have no choice," said Sheriff Lewis. "Until the decision is made to go ahead and repair this facility or build a new facility, we have to step up our efforts to make sure this facility is free of people trying to introduce contraband into this place. That will protect our employees as well as the inmates we house here."
Sheriff Lewis says Course and Divinity will be charged with introducing contraband into a correctional facility.
Apparently they planned to get the items inside using a rope that was dropped from a broken window. We are told that window is on a repair list for the Board of Supervisors.
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