Cell phones, drugs, knives found; cases being made against inmates and others
Officers bag up contraband found in jail
This past Saturday officers with the Escambia County Sheriff's Office and the Brewton Police Department conducted a shakedown at the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton that led to the seizure of multiple contraband items and the investigation continues into the inmates who possessed the items and how the items made it inside the county jail.
Sheriff Heath Jackson reported officers found 13 cell phones, six cell phone chargers, four homemade knives, a quantity of pills, three bags of tobacco, one bag of spice, four lighters, six books with hidden compartments and one tattoo gun.
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