Package containing half a million dollars worth of contraband seized from N.B. penitentiary

Dorchester Penitentiary in Dorchester, N.B., is pictured on April 16, 2024.

Correctional Service Canada (CSC) says contraband and unauthorized items were recently seized from a federal correctional facility in Dorchester, N.B.

The items, which were seized on June 2, were in a package on the perimeter of the medium security unit at Dorchester Penitentiary.

The items included methamphetamine, marijuana, shatter, nicotine patches and tobacco.

The total estimated institutional value of the seizure is $534,100, according to CSC.

The agency says police have been notified and the institution is investigating.

In March, correctional staff at the facility also seized a package on the perimeter of the medium-security unit which contained illicit drugs and cellphones with an institutional value of $941,502.

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