Unbelievable Prison Smuggles

Long before, Orange is the New Black featured a cockroach trained to smuggle cigarettes.Orange is the New BlackA cockroach trained to smuggle cigarettes featured in Orange is the New Black.Industrious inmatesIn Amarillo, Texas, two prisoners in solitary confinement got cigarettes in 1938, surprising the jailer. Another prisoner snitching revealed the secret: they taught a cockroach to carry a smoke and a match on its back, then it scurried through a wall crack to the solitary block. The jailer admired the inmates' cleverness and released them from solitary.

In March 2011, a prison inmate's mother turned the heroin-withdrawl drug Suboxone into a paste. She painted it into a coloring book and sent it to her son.This happens in Cape May, New Jersey.She marked the book "To Daddy" before mailing it as a gift. Authorities already had a tip about drug smuggling in drawings, so they intercepted the book. Guards saw the orange splotches in the pictures and tested them. Three prisoners and the industrious mother faced charges.

On New Year's Eve 2012, officials at a Brazilian prison saw a cat with a...a veritable arsenalThe kitty, a regular in the prison yard, had escape tools taped to it.The cat had two saws, two drills, a headset, a memory card, a cell phone, three batteries, and a mobile phone charger all wrapped tightly around it. Brazilian police suspected the inmates raised the cat to help plan an escape.

Lebanon Correctional Institute in Ohio seized a real cell phone that looked like an oversized watch. This watch told time and could also make calls if the wearer pressed a few buttons. Inmates use smaller phones to direct criminal operations.

A woman tried to sneak her common-law husband out of a prison in Chetumal, Mexico, in a suitcase during a visit. Guards checked the bulging, hard-to-carry bag belonging to 19-year-old Maria del Mar Arjona. Inside, they found inmate Juan Ramirez Tijerina, serving 20 years for weapons, curled up. Ramirez returned to prison, and his partner was arrested.

Two women in Malta were caught trying to smuggle a banana stuffed with a cardboard tube.The cat had a full of heroin.This went into the tiny island's...Corradino Correctional Facility. Another prisoner asked them to smuggle the drugs to others. The two women avoided trouble, but the inmate received an extra 11 months.

Can't pass your phone to a prisoner the old way? Get it over the wall—like the industrious Russian supplier whoThey taped phones to arrows.A Tavda resident fired them into the prison yard with a crossbow.Cornelius Bazarov had 18 cell phones, spare batteries, SIM cards, and earpieces. He wrapped all these items on crossbow bolts using gaffer tape.A guard saw him. He sounded the alarm. They found him in a tree growth near the prison in Sverdlovsk Oblast, central Russia.

Prisoners in southeastern Brazil reportedly bred and raised carrier pigeons.They trained the pigeons to fly home. Smugglers took the birds out. They attached cell phone parts to the birds' backs with a small backpack. The phones helped coordinate crime outside. Then, the birds flew back to the jail. Two birds reached home, but authorities caught them, and the parts were taken.Carrier pigeons flew back to their homes. Birds carried cell phone parts attached to their backs with a tiny backpack. These phones coordinated outside criminal activity. Officials released the birds to fly back to the jail. Two birds made it home, but they were caught, and the parts were seized.

Authorities in Tripoli's Tyre Prison faced drug smuggling attempts through food. They seized sandwiches, pastries, and fruit, all loaded with contraband. In November 2014, they found a large amount ofThey stuffed hashish into potatoes.One Palestinian brought the 16 potatoes stuffed with hashish for another. This method of smuggling drugs was called a "crafty manner." Authorities arrested the smuggler, recognizing his cleverness.

Guards at a UK prison checked a box of Weetabix cereal a visitor brought in. The box held vitamins, minerals, and asmuggled cell phone.They stuffed the cell phone in the middle.

A senior prison guard in Birmingham, England, served over two years in prison for smuggling drugs.The guard smuggled drugs.She smuggled weed inside chocolate Kinder eggs given to an inmate she was having an affair with. The eggs were found when the guard's relationship came out. The guard, a 20-year prison veteran, was fired and pleaded guilty.

Using pulleys to lift things is an old trick. A newer trick involves using a pulley to lift abag of drugs.Pinellas County Jail officials learned inmates smuggled forbidden items into their sixth-floor cells. They found a long nylon cord with a plastic bag at the end. Opening the bag revealed weed, tobacco, cigarettes, and lighters.

Phones got smaller, making them easier to smuggle in hollowed-out books. Inmates in Manila'sNew Bilibid Prison added a strange element to phone smuggling by using the Bible.They used the Bible for phone smuggling.Officials caught phone-stuffed Good Books moving in and out of the prison. A raid also found books stuffed with chargers, signal boosters, and wine bottles.

One way to smuggle contraband into prison without getting caught is hiding it inside something that won't be taken.Such methods smuggled everything fromcell phonesto drugsto weapons to random things like aCVS coupon (one of 30 items Neil Lansing crammed into a condom in his rear end)This method causes severe physical damage to the smuggler. Prisoners almost always figure this out. Find another way.