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WENATCHEE, Wash., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Officers at a jail in Washington state said they found tobacco and oxycodone pills hidden inside a cantaloupe meant for prisoners.
Chelan County Regional Justice Center officers said workers at a Plaza Super Jet store in Wenatchee called the jail Monday and said security cameras recorded two women placing the melon with surplus food that had been sent to the facility's kitchen to be served to prisoners and detainees, the Wenatchee (Wash.) World reported Thursday.
"It was like a pumpkin, with a noticeable cut around the top," jail administrator Phil Stanley said of the cantaloupe. "Somebody would have had to be a little bit more sneaky than they were."
Stanley said officers found tobacco and a bag full of the powerful prescription painkiller oxycodone.
Cherie Smith, a Wenatchee Police Department spokeswoman, said investigators do not expect to make any arrests in the case.
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