NSW prison employee smuggled drugs: cops

byCT Report

20/12/2017

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ZURICH: A prison employee has been arrested after allegedly smuggling drugs into a NSW jail in exchange for cash. Drug dogs were sweeping Cessnock Correctional Centre on Monday when illicit substances were found in a wallet belonging to the 29-year-old employee, police said in a statement on Tuesday.

The man was arrested and interviewed.

Police will allege he smuggled in contraband on at least 10 occasions in 2017 in exchange for cash.

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The employee was charged with two corruption offences, bringing drugs into a prison and two counts of unlawfully delivering something to an inmate.

He has been suspended from duty and granted conditional bail to appear in Cessnock Local Court on January 24.

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