ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — Two women have been charged with introducing contraband into a penal institution after they allegedly attempted to smuggle contraband and other illegal items into the Black River Police lock-up on Saturday.

Reports are that the Black River police conducted a special operation dubbed ‘Crack Down’ at the institution where food containers destined for inmates were thoroughly searched. Items including one cellular phone, cigarettes, tobacco, ganja, lighter and 3ʺ concrete nails were reportedly found in the containers being delivered by the women.

Fifty-two-year-old Maudlyn Nelson Forrester, a teacher of St Mary’s district, Munro in St Elizabeth and 41-year-old Tracey-Ann Campbell, a shopkeeper of Crawltop district in Riversdale, St Catherine were subsequently charged.

Both women are scheduled to appear in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrates Court on Tuesday, July 4.

Coleridge Minto, Acting Superintendent and Commanding Officer for the parish of St Elizabeth, is warning persons to desist from attempting to take contraband into the lockups as persons found in breach will be given the full extent of the law.