does hiding contraband in your butt work when pulled over by the police?

The same number became active again on November 11, this time pinging off masts close to Swansea prison. The prosecutor said cell site analysis showed 97 per cent of activity on a target phone number took place using mobile masts very close to HMP Manchester, with the last call being made in the early hours of the morning of October 1 the day Pullen was transferred to Wales. However, shortly after his arrival at 200 Oystermouth Road an investigation was launched into whether he had access to a mobile. In October 2021 the 24-year-old defendant was transferred to Swansea prison in readiness for his release at the half-way point of his sentence, which was scheduled for February this year. This offence related to the defendant's part in a Liverpool-based organised crime group which shipped huge quantities of heroin into south and mid Wales - you can read about that conspiracy here. James Hartson, prosecuting, said in October 2019 Pullen was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for drug trafficking offences, and was sent to Manchester prison to serve his sentence. Read next: A callous carer stole thousands of pounds from the elderly and vulnerable couple he was taking care of

Swansea Crown Court heard that when Pullen was released from HMP Swansea at the halfway point of the drug-dealing sentence he was serving he was arrested in connection with the phone offences, then released on bail - and went back home to Newport where he resumed trafficking heroin and cocaine. The phone was eventually recovered after being located hidden in the defendant's bum, but an investigation showed that in the preceding months he had made and received more than 2,500 calls and texts from both prisons. A prisoner who smuggled a phone from one prison to another says he was offered £3,000 for the mobile by fellow inmates.ĭrug dealer Harri Pullen managed to take the contraband with him when he was transferred from HMP Manchester to Swansea jail in preparation for his forthcoming release.

Does hiding contraband in your butt work when pulled over by the police?