GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. – A police organized crime and gang unit has charged three more people for planning to smuggle drugs into a northern Alberta jail.
Last year police charged a guard and two others after seizing marijuana, oxycodone pills and methamphetamine that was to be sold in the Peace River Correctional Centre.
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On Wednesday, RCMP charged former inmate William Blackwood and two others with conspiracy to traffic meth and pot.
Trafficking charges laid last year against Thomas Black, a correctional officer at the facility, are still before the courts.
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The others charged in the case include Chantelle McAllister, Robin Wachter, Farrah Hachey, and Shauna Cunningham.
Police allege people inside and outside the jail conspired to sell drugs to inmates.
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