Justice charged two prison workers, investigated for entering and delivering drugs and cell phones to prisoners, in the Punta de Rieles prison. The investigation was formalized this Friday and the officials must serve 120 days of preventive detention, reported Underlined (channel 10) and confirmed sources from the Ministry of the Interior to The Observer.
It is for the alleged commission as perpetrators of a continued crime of bribery, qualified aggravated, because it is prison staff, with a crime of delivery of prohibited narcotics. One of them was also charged with a crime of assistance to drug trafficking activitiesaccording to the information provided.
The workers of the National Rehabilitation Institute (INR) had been arrested this Tuesday after two raids carried out in Montevideo. According to the internal investigation of the Ministry of the Interior, entered “prohibited items” to the inmates of Unit 1 of the prison center.
They were both seized $400 thousandand remained at the disposal of the National Drug Board, reported from the Ministry of the Interior, to The Observer.
During these raids –which were in a house and in a self-service store–, two other people were arrested. A man was arrested at his house in the raid and they found him $500 thousand in his pants.
A woman was also found, unrelated to the investigation but who was required by the Specialized Police Station for Domestic Violence and Gender of Zone III of Montevideo, for which she was transferred that same day to that unit.
In addition, on Tuesday the police seized marijuana, cocaine, a precision scale, cell phones and technological devices.
