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Prisoners Hide Cell Phones
in Bowels
SAN SALVADOR (Sept. 7) - Four prisoners in an El
Salvador jail hid cellphones, a phone charger and
spare chips in their bowels so they could coordinate
crimes from their cells, prison officials said on
Wednesday.
The four men, all gang
members, wrapped their phones and accessories in
plastic and inserted them into their rectums
"far enough to reach their intestines,"
Ramon Arevalo, director of the maximum security
Zacatecoluca prison, said.
Arevalo said the ruse was
discovered during X-ray examinations following six
weeks of investigations.
The men, members of the
ultra-violent Mara Salvatrucha street gang and the
first in El Salvador known to go to such lengths to
make phone calls in jail, used the cellphones to
manage robberies, blackmail and murders outside,
Arevalo said.
The Zacatecoluca prison --
some 40 miles east of the capital San Salvador and
currently home to 337 inmates -- goes by the nickname
"Zacatraz," after the famously secure U.S.
island penitentiary Alcatraz
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