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Tennis ball latest ploy used to get drugs into prison

THE lengths to which criminals will go to get drugs into prison have been revealed.

Police in Cleveland said last night they are hunting two men alleged to have hurled a tennis ball full of drugs over the wall of Holme House Prison, in Stockton.

Prison chiefs said that the ploy was not the only one adopted by people on the outside.

Smugglers have used the body of a dead pigeon to try to get narcotics over the walls, said officers. They say the jail is in a constant battle to prevent the smuggling of drugs into its cells.

Holme House Governor Matt Spencer said throwing items over the wall was one of a number of ways people tried to get drugs into the jail.

Cleveland Police are trying to ...

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