BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A Louisiana Department of Corrections cadet has been arrested for trying to smuggle drugs and cellphones into a state prison.
St. Gabriel Police arrested 29-year-old Jomar Jackson, of Baton Rouge, for felony introduction of contraband Tuesday and transported him to the Iberville Parish Jail. Bond had not been set. It was unknown if he is represented by an attorney.
Corrections officers were doing a routine shakedown of arriving employees when Jackson turned around and headed back to the front gate. The Department of Public Safety and Corrections, in a news release, said officers stopped Jackson, performed a search and found four packs of synthetic marijuana and two cellular phones stuffed inside two potato chip cans in his lunch box.
Jackson, a cadet since Oct. 1, was fired upon his arrest.
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