Comments Food Service Worker Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Smuggle Marijuana Into Prison

[MiMedical]

BLACKMAN TWP., MI – A contracted food services worker at G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility was arrested this week for allegedly trying to smuggle packages of marijuana into the prison on Elm Avenue.

The 19-year-old Jackson man, an employee of Aramark Correctional Services, is expected to be arraigned Friday, March 21. As of late morning, a time had not yet been scheduled.

Prison officials had information the man was carrying contraband into the facility and stopped him Wednesday morning. An officer doing a pat-down found the two bundles, Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Michael Church said.

The packages were wrapped in duct tape. They were about the size of two baked potatoes and weighed a total of a little more than 5 ounces, Church said.

Prison officials contacted the state police about 11 a.m. The officer located the marijuana about 10:40 a.m.

Church did not know where the man had the packages concealed.

 

 

 

He refused to tell police to whom he was attempting to deliver the marijuana, the detective said.

The arrest is the latest in a series of problems since Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration opted to eliminate 370 state jobs and pay a contractor provide prison meals, according to the Detroit Free Press.

A senator with the Senate Appropriations Department of Corrections Subcommittee earlier said the agreement will save the state an estimated $16 million a year.

The same day as the arrest, two state employee unions and a Republican senator urged the Michigan Civil Service Commission to reject privatization of Michigan’s prison food service, saying the Aramark contract has endangered prison security since the company took over in December, according to the Free Press.

An Aramark spokeswoman told the newspaper the company shares the corrections department’s zero tolerance for inappropriate conduct. “Assuming the facts are as reported, this incident would violate everything Aramark stands for and is contrary to our procedures, operations and values.”

 

 

 

Not counting the marijuana incident, 36 Aramark employees have been banned from state prisons for a variety of transgressions since the company took over food service Dec. 8, the Free Press reported. By comparison, about five state employees were banned in the last five years, union officials said.

 

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2014/03/jackson_food_service_worker_ex.html#incart_river_default

 

[pic book]

goes for extra inside, like tobacco. no doubt this was not the cook's first barbecue.

Edited March 21, 2014 by pic book

[phaquetoo]

They think they can stop it from coming into our country aka war on drugs!

 

and they cant even keep it out of government run prisons!  It realy is a wonder they can find their offices if and when they go to work!

 

peace

[MiMedical]

HA, now there is 4 jail guards that have been charged for having marijuana butter.....Shuette is cracking down on jail smuggling now, he's losing the war on the out side so he has to go after something..