Prisoner cavity search results in drug seizure at HMP

    Wednesday, 3 May 2023 16:30

    By Tonya Organ

    Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's

    Police have charged a St. John’s man after a body cavity search of a prisoner at Her Majesty’s Penitentiary.

    37 year-old Phillip Pynn is now facing drug trafficking charges. RNC say on January 6th they were called to the penitentiary after multiple packages of unknown substances had been seized as a result of the search. On March 3rd police identified the substances as three packages of a mixture of  fentanyl and bromazolam (bra-ma-zoe-lam, better known as Xanax.) A fourth package contained cocaine.

    RNC say a total of 72 grams of fentanyl/xanax mixture and 20 grams of cocaine were seized with a street value of approximately $30,000.

     

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