Lusignan inmate caught trying to smuggle ganja into prison – police

The items that were found after the police opened the bag

An inmate of the Lusignan Prison, on the East Coast of Demerara, was busted while trying to smuggle nearly two and a half pounds of cannabis into the facility on Thursday morning.

According to a Guyana Police Force press release, 25-year-old Shardrick King was found with the suspected narcotics at about 8.20 am at the prison.

The release said that the man, who is serving a sentence for wounding, works as an orderly in the penitentiary