Saskatchewan police apprehended a man and a woman near the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre on suspicion of using a potato cannon to send contraband over the fence.
The man faces two charges of trafficking crystal meth and distributing cannabis to an institution. The woman, who was behind the wheel of the van when it crashed, was also charged with conspiracy to traffic, dangerous driving and evading police.
Potato guns have been popular for sending contraband into prison for over a decade. They are capable of moving projectiles several hundred feet without damaging their payload. In 2008, police in Wisconsin seized a potato gun that was allegedly being used to shoot drugs over the fence at the McCormick Correctional Institution in Portage. The gun's owner was reportedly never located.
Earlier in 2019, the South Carolina Department of Corrections spent more than $8.5 million to install netting around the walls of some of their high-security facilities to deter smugglers. Soon afterwards, reports of potato guns being used to circumvent the new barriers began to circulate from local police departments.
In March, Kerri Hickman was arrested after being observed using a T-shirt cannon of the type commonly used at sporting events to fling drugs and cellular phones over the walls of the North Fork Correctional Unit in Sayre.
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