A Mor­vant man, who was charged two months ago with throw­ing pro­hib­it­ed items in­to the Port-of-Spain Prison, was grant­ed $250,000 bail af­ter he was fi­nal­ly held by po­lice on Sun­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease is­sued by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), Alex G Ed­wards, of Nev­er Dirty, Mor­vant, ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter In­di­ra Chinebass.

His ar­rest Came fol­low­ing an ex­er­cise co­or­di­nat­ed by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin and ASP Stan­ley.

Po­lice said be­tween 5 pm and 8.25 pm, the ex­er­cise, con­duct­ed by Cpl Williams, Cpl Hyde, WPC Joseph and con­sta­bles Ja­gram and Bris­tol, re­sult­ed in Ed­wards’ ar­rest.

Ed­wards was ac­cused of throw­ing pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles in­to the prison on Feb­ru­ary 27, June 1, June 10 and Ju­ly 12.

He was al­so held and charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na, which al­leged­ly oc­curred on Au­gust 2.

Gue­var­ro, in the me­dia re­lease, com­mend­ed the dili­gent in­ves­ti­ga­tions by the team, in­clud­ing the prison of­fi­cers in­volved. He said all at­tempts by crim­i­nal el­e­ments to smug­gle con­tra­band in­to the na­tion’s pris­ons will be in­ter­cept­ed and pros­e­cut­ed to the fullest ex­tent of the law.

“The com­mis­sion­er said the TTPS stands ready and able along­side its law en­force­ment part­ners to main­tain the in­sti­tu­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and in­tegri­ty of all pris­ons from out­side el­e­ments and emerg­ing threats,” the re­lease said.

In jus­ti­fy­ing the State of Emer­gency on Ju­ly 18, Gue­var­ro said there was a plot to mur­der top state of­fi­cials, hatched in prison by in­mates who were part of an or­gan­ised crime syn­di­cate, which was be­ing as­sist­ed by prison of­fi­cers.