It seems fruits are now the pre­ferred choice to have smug­gle con­tra­band items in­to the na­tion’s pris­ons.

On Wednes­day, a 22-year-old Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni man was ar­rest­ed by prison of­fi­cers at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca at­tempt­ing to smug­gle in four ap­ples stuffed with pack­ets of mar­i­jua­na with a to­tal weight of weigh­ing 88 grams.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 1 pm a prison of­fi­cer was scan­ning vis­i­tors when he ob­served a vis­i­tor with a bag con­tain­ing the ap­ples. How­ev­er, on clos­er look, the of­fi­cer ob­served that the ap­ples ap­peared to look “weird.” An in­spec­tion re­vealed that the ap­ples ap­peared to have been cut and glued. The ap­ples were sub­se­quent­ly seized, cut open and the pack­ets of gan­ja found.

The man, who is said to be an ap­ple ven­dor was sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed and hand­ed over to of­fi­cers at the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion.

Last week of­fi­cers al­so ar­rest­ed a man who at­tempt­ed to smug­gle mar­i­jua­na stuffed in­side grape­fruits.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.