Attempt to take synthetic cannabis into jail
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A Bromley woman who tried to take synthetic cannabis into prison has been sentenced to 120 hours community work.
Natasha Betty Lynn, 26, had several phone communications intercepted from an inmate at Rolleston prison, saying she was going to bring contraband into the prison, the Christchurch District Court was told.
On June 13 she was stopped driving into the grounds of the prison, and she gave the staff a packet with 28g of K2 cannabis and cigarette papers in it.
Defence counsel Angela Grant said Lynn apologised, and felt bad about the offending. Lynn had been pressured by a prisoner who telephoned daily, and other people were phoning her as well, she said.
Judge Brian Callaghan said this type of offending needed to be met with a reasonably stern response, but he acknowledged she had acted under pressure when he sentenced her.
In the same session Timothy John Roberts, a 48-year-old Wainoni man, was remanded on bail on charges of taking methamphetamine, cannabis, and a sim card into Christchurch Men’s Prison intending to give them to a prisoner.
He was also charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of cannabis, and possession of a pipe.
He was remanded to August 12, with one of the conditions being that he not enter prison property or grounds unless he was a remand prisoner.
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