Man booked into OK jail smuggles a gun up his-

[evan price]

I call this a "derriere-inger"...!

Mark Gregory Valadez was arrested on Sunday morning on a minor city violation and transported to the Oklahoma County Jail.

Authorities said that because so many people were being booked into jail at the time, Valadez was only subjected to a pat-down and wasn’t made to go through a metal detector.
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Authorities only learned about the weapon after Valadez, who lives in Wichita, Kansas, bragged to other inmates that he had smuggled a weapon into the jail.

About 16 hours after Valadez was locked up, police carried out a cavity search on him which resulted in the loaded gun being uncovered.

‘We had our officers go up and do a search and they found a little small Derringer with one small round inside,’ Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel told KFOR.

The question I have is- if you're going to smuggle a gun into a jail, WHY NOT top off the spent round?
Maybe the bad guys can't find rimfire 22's either?

 

[x_wrench]

now that would have made for some legal nightmares for the jail and county government. if another inmate had been shot, while in jail, any 2 bit lawyer could have got millions from them in a lawsuit. go to jail, get shot because the cops did not do their job, get millions of $. of course, that would be if you survived. but if not, you family would benefit from it.

 

[wgaynor]

About 10 years ago, while working as a Correctional Officer in Indiana, I was shown some training material where an offender did the same thing. He shoved a derringer and a handcuff key up his rectum. Later he became uncomfortable and in pain while on the way to court, so they took him to Hospital and did X-Ray's and discovered it. That X-Ray was shown to all trainees to teach them that there isn't anything a person will not do.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

I read one where the guy had a full size .38 revolver (4" barrel?). Now THAT'S dedication to a cause! http://www.wect.com/story/16515450/murder-suspect-hides-gun-in-rectum

 

[Al Thompson]

While this is an excellent reminder to our LEOs and COs, it's not really on topic for THR.

It's sort of a reach, in other words.