Woman hides tobacco leaves in underwear to give to jailed husband 

Photo: ABS-CBN News.
Photo: ABS-CBN News.

A woman was caught trying to sneak dried tobacco leaves inside a Baguio City jail. Her preferred strategy? Hiding it inside her underwear.

The unidentified woman was caught when she visited her husband in the Baguio City Jail male dorm with their three children on Sunday afternoon, ABS-CBN News reported. The incident happened during the jail’s “family day,” Bombo Radyo wrote.

Jail guards noticed that there was a huge bump on the woman’s body, which prompted them to conduct a body search, the same Bombo Radyo report states.

The husband maintains that the leaves were just for his personal use but authorities found that he was allegedly going to sell them.

The couple was found to have allegedly sold the tobacco for up to PHP9,000 (US$169.89), although the husband has denied this, ABS-CBN News wrote.

The weird bit? This, apparently, is nothing new for the police.

Jail Inspector Cris Dornagon told ABS-CBN News that people try to sneak tobacco in every week. The jail’s administration even said that they catch four to five people trying to bring in contraband weekly.

Dornagon hoped that those who help bring in contraband could be penalized too.

Right now, the woman’s only punishment is that she is no longer be allowed to visit her husband who has been in jail for two months for charges of domestic violence against her and frustrated homicide.



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