… tried to sneak cigarettes, lighter to detained husband
Deoranie Latchman of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara was on Tuesday last caught by Police at the Providence Police Station trying to sneak prohibited items to her husband, who is detained at the said station.

She appeared in the Providence Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday last to answer a charge of `Supplying prohibited articles to prisoner’ and was fined $25, 000 and bonded to keep the peace for one year.
According to the particulars of the case, on the day in question, Latchman took meals for her incarcerated husband, but police, on checking the food, found a lighter and six cigarettes wrapped in a plastic bag and concealed inside the food.
The woman was then cautioned, arrested and charged with the offence.