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Inmates charged for sneaking cigs in jail

Published 12:01am Thursday, August 30, 2012

NATCHEZ — Two Natchez men were given additional charges this week after trying to sneak cigarettes into the Adams County Jail.

Verenzo Cartrell Green, 28, 209 Country Club Drive, and Tre Michael Herbert, 26, 1 Cottage Farm Road, were both charged with introduction of contraband into the jail.

Sheriff Chuck Mayfield said Herbert had been in court when someone slipped him cigarettes in the courtroom.

Green was also in possession of cigarettes, Mayfield said.

“Cigarettes are contraband because ours is a non-smoking jail,” he said. “We watch that pretty close. They are searched every time they leave and every time they come back.”

Herbert was originally booked into the jail in charges of prescription forgery.

Green was booked in March on burglary, weapons and contempt of court charges.

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  • Anonymous

    They should just start giving out jail time and or prison sentences depending on the severity of the situation for this kind of thing… apparently fining them is not working.

  • Anonymous

    Should treat it the same as smuggling in drugs or guns. Add 3 years to their sentence…not to run concurrently…but actually added to the end.

  • Anonymous

    They probably had the cigarettes hid in their underclothes—–WHEW—–anyone want a cig? Set up a tent in the back yard  of the jail, feed baloney sandwiches and water. No A/C, no tv and no cigs. That ought to keep the others smoke free. As a matter of fact, that sounds pretty good. Do all the prisoners that way. Maybe the sheriff in Arizona has something going. I notice his return rate for thugs is a lot lower than here.

  • Anonymous

    Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette, smoke that cigarette ’til you smoke yourself to death. Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate he’s just going to have to wait. I’ve got to have just one more cigarette. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/smartypart Becky Burns

    at the courthouse in vidalia the inmates can have there family  bring them  smokes and inmates can call for food delivery

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