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September 9, 2006 - 8:04AM
Four prisoners in an El Salvador jail hid mobile phones, a phone charger and spare chips in their bowels so they could coordinate crimes from their cells, according to prison officials.
The four men, all gang members, wrapped their phones and accessories in plastic and inserted them into their rectums "far enough to reach their intestines," Ramon Arevalo, director of the maximum security Zacatecoluca prison, said.
Arevalo said the ruse was discovered during X-ray examinations following six weeks of investigations.
The men, members of the ultra-violent Mara Salvatrucha street gang and the first in El Salvador known to go to such lengths to make phone calls in jail, used the mobiles to manage robberies, blackmail and murders outside, Arevalo said.
The Zacatecoluca prison - some 65km east of the capital San Salvador and currently home to 337 inmates - goes by the nickname "Zacatraz," after the famously secure U.S. island prison Alcatraz.September 9, 2006 - 8:04AM
Four prisoners in an El Salvador jail hid mobile phones, a phone charger and spare chips in their bowels so they could coordinate crimes from their cells, according to prison officials.
The four men, all gang members, wrapped their phones and accessories in plastic and inserted them into their rectums "far enough to reach their intestines," Ramon Arevalo, director of the maximum security Zacatecoluca prison, said.
Arevalo said the ruse was discovered during X-ray examinations following six weeks of investigations.
The men, members of the ultra-violent Mara Salvatrucha street gang and the first in El Salvador known to go to such lengths to make phone calls in jail, used the mobiles to manage robberies, blackmail and murders outside, Arevalo said.
The Zacatecoluca prison - some 65km east of the capital San Salvador and currently home to 337 inmates - goes by the nickname "Zacatraz," after the famously secure U.S. island prison Alcatraz.
source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/phones--pdas/pass-the-phone-amigo/2006/09/09/1157222362436.html
Four prisoners in an El Salvador jail hid mobile phones, a phone charger and spare chips in their bowels so they could coordinate crimes from their cells, according to prison officials.
The four men, all gang members, wrapped their phones and accessories in plastic and inserted them into their rectums "far enough to reach their intestines," Ramon Arevalo, director of the maximum security Zacatecoluca prison, said.
Arevalo said the ruse was discovered during X-ray examinations following six weeks of investigations.
The men, members of the ultra-violent Mara Salvatrucha street gang and the first in El Salvador known to go to such lengths to make phone calls in jail, used the mobiles to manage robberies, blackmail and murders outside, Arevalo said.
The Zacatecoluca prison - some 65km east of the capital San Salvador and currently home to 337 inmates - goes by the nickname "Zacatraz," after the famously secure U.S. island prison Alcatraz.September 9, 2006 - 8:04AM
Four prisoners in an El Salvador jail hid mobile phones, a phone charger and spare chips in their bowels so they could coordinate crimes from their cells, according to prison officials.
The four men, all gang members, wrapped their phones and accessories in plastic and inserted them into their rectums "far enough to reach their intestines," Ramon Arevalo, director of the maximum security Zacatecoluca prison, said.
Arevalo said the ruse was discovered during X-ray examinations following six weeks of investigations.
The men, members of the ultra-violent Mara Salvatrucha street gang and the first in El Salvador known to go to such lengths to make phone calls in jail, used the mobiles to manage robberies, blackmail and murders outside, Arevalo said.
The Zacatecoluca prison - some 65km east of the capital San Salvador and currently home to 337 inmates - goes by the nickname "Zacatraz," after the famously secure U.S. island prison Alcatraz.
source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/phones--pdas/pass-the-phone-amigo/2006/09/09/1157222362436.html