And The Darwin Award goes to.....To this nutjob
Baby used to smuggle heroin into prison
RICHARD DOOLEY
The Daily News
A Halifax woman who brought her two children to a maximum security prison is facing drug trafficking charges after a dog detected traces of narcotics on her youngest child.
Kyla-Ann Derry, 22, of Halifax was arrested at the Donnacona Institution near Quebec City on Saturday after police seized 32 grams of heroin.
She was in a Quebec provincial court in Quebec City on Monday to answer the charges. Her children, a month-old infant and a five-year-old, were handed over to Quebec's youth protection services.
Correctional Service Canada officers routinely use drug-detecting dogs when visitors arrive at the prison.
One of the dogs pointed at a baby being wheeled in a carriage.
"That indicated to us a soupçon of drugs," Corrections Service Canada spokesman Jean-Yves Roy said.
Prison officials refused to say which inmate the woman was planning to visit.
Guards denied the woman entrance into the prison and called Quebec police.
She apparently became abusive towards the guards, threatening to strike one with her fist.
The woman walked into a nearby bathroom with the two children, followed by two police officers who were at the prison on another matter.
They observed the woman removing socks and shoes from the baby in the carriage and wiping up blood from the floor.
She was taken into custody and transported to Quebec City where she handed over the drugs to investigators.
Police estimate the prison value of the heroin at $38,400.
Derry's been in trouble with the law in Halifax before, facing charges of theft and possession of stolen property in 2004.
Anne Mathieu of the Quebec provincial police said the incident is still under investigation but it's too early to tell if there will be more charges or arrests.
The same day Derry was apprehended, another visitor to Donnacona was caught carrying 117.5 grams of hashish. Police say the two incidents aren't related.
Prison guards regularly try to intercept drug shipments into institutions, but are not allowed to search children. Roy said drug dogs are routinely used to sniff out contraband drugs, but the smuggling of heroin into prisons is rare.
rdooley@hfxnews.ca
RICHARD DOOLEY
The Daily News
A Halifax woman who brought her two children to a maximum security prison is facing drug trafficking charges after a dog detected traces of narcotics on her youngest child.
Kyla-Ann Derry, 22, of Halifax was arrested at the Donnacona Institution near Quebec City on Saturday after police seized 32 grams of heroin.
She was in a Quebec provincial court in Quebec City on Monday to answer the charges. Her children, a month-old infant and a five-year-old, were handed over to Quebec's youth protection services.
Correctional Service Canada officers routinely use drug-detecting dogs when visitors arrive at the prison.
One of the dogs pointed at a baby being wheeled in a carriage.
"That indicated to us a soupçon of drugs," Corrections Service Canada spokesman Jean-Yves Roy said.
Prison officials refused to say which inmate the woman was planning to visit.
Guards denied the woman entrance into the prison and called Quebec police.
She apparently became abusive towards the guards, threatening to strike one with her fist.
The woman walked into a nearby bathroom with the two children, followed by two police officers who were at the prison on another matter.
They observed the woman removing socks and shoes from the baby in the carriage and wiping up blood from the floor.
She was taken into custody and transported to Quebec City where she handed over the drugs to investigators.
Police estimate the prison value of the heroin at $38,400.
Derry's been in trouble with the law in Halifax before, facing charges of theft and possession of stolen property in 2004.
Anne Mathieu of the Quebec provincial police said the incident is still under investigation but it's too early to tell if there will be more charges or arrests.
The same day Derry was apprehended, another visitor to Donnacona was caught carrying 117.5 grams of hashish. Police say the two incidents aren't related.
Prison guards regularly try to intercept drug shipments into institutions, but are not allowed to search children. Roy said drug dogs are routinely used to sniff out contraband drugs, but the smuggling of heroin into prisons is rare.
rdooley@hfxnews.ca