Prison warden detained for smuggling cellular phones and drugs into Colina II

SANTIAGO.- Detectives from the Criminal Investigation brigade detained the warden accused of smuggling cellular telephones and drugs to inmates at the Colina II penal institution. Family members of the inmates would pay him to deliver the items.

The prison guard, Raúl Alejandro Escalona Contreras, age 29, was detained just after 8:00pm last night by officials from the aforementioned unit as he received a package containing two cellular phones and 47.30 grams of marijuana. 

According to the findings, inmates would give the penitentiary employee phone numbers and he would contact with their family members, charging 40 thousand pesos per item that he smuggled into the prison’s interior.

Pavez added that Escalona already had a pending order for his arrest over less serious offenses and that he had illegally smuggled packages into the prison on at least three occasions.

Raúl Escalona had served as a warden for 10 years. The penitentiary has announced his dismissal as well as the initiation of an internal investigation in order to determine whether other similar cases exist.