The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice (TTPrS) has in­ter­cept­ed a pack­age con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na and oth­er pro­hib­it­ed items thrown over the wall of the Port of Spain Prison.

The TTPrS said around 8:10 a.m. on Thurs­day, of­fi­cers act­ed on in­for­ma­tion that a pack­age had been thrown over the prison’s perime­ter wall.

Of­fi­cers searched the south-west­ern side of the prison and found a black plas­tic bag con­tain­ing a white gal­lon bot­tle.

Ac­cord­ing to the Prison Ser­vice, the bot­tle con­tained 230 grammes of plant-like ma­te­r­i­al re­sem­bling mar­i­jua­na, 12 packs of RAW wrap­ping pa­per, four packs of Bam­bu wrap­ping pa­per and nine cig­a­rette lighters.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing with the as­sis­tance of ex­ter­nal law en­force­ment agen­cies.

The dis­cov­ery came a day af­ter of­fi­cers at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison con­fis­cat­ed two cel­lu­lar phones, 348 cig­a­rettes, a hot­plate, an ex­ten­sion cord, a makeshift elec­tri­cal out­let and wrap­ping pa­per dur­ing a search of G Di­vi­sion.

The TTPrS said three in­mates are ex­pect­ed to be charged in con­nec­tion with those items.

The Prison Ser­vice warned mem­bers of the pub­lic that in­tro­duc­ing pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles in­to a prison is a se­ri­ous of­fence and will be dealt with ac­cord­ing to law.

In­for­ma­tion on the traf­fick­ing of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles can be re­port­ed con­fi­den­tial­ly to the TTPrS hot­line at 800-PRSN (7776) or to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.