– marijuana, cellphones and lighters among items

A JOINT Services raid in the wee hours of Saturday morning at the New Amsterdam (NA) Prison unearthed five grams of marijuana, five cellphones, a quantity of improvised weapons, lighters and phone chargers.

This search comes on the heels of one conducted on Friday at the Lusignan Prison, where officers unearthed yet another set of contraband items, including pepper sauce and syringes.

Among the illegal items found at the Berbice facility were six earpieces; a quantity of razor blades; 17 chargers; 24 lighters; five cellphones; a quantity of wire; 10 improvised weapons; eight metal spoons; two pairs of scissors; one plastic knife; two nail clips; six syringes with needles; a quantity of Ziplock bags; six bottles of pepper sauce; one pack of cards; three bottles of medicine; four bottles of oil with suspected cannabis seeds; one memory card; three mirrors and one wrist watch.

Authorities are trying to curb the smuggling of contraband items into prisons, which remains a recurrent problem within the prison system.