{"id":6559,"date":"2012-01-19T07:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:20:39","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6559","title":{"rendered":"Wonder why jail strip searches for weapons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/01\/16\/man-hides-gun-in-rectum_n_1208666.html?ref=crime&amp;ir=Crime\">Man Hides Gun In Rectum: Michael Leon Ward Smuggled 10-Inch Weapon<\/a>, Cops Say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are some places you should definitely not hide a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Police in North Carolina believe that despite multiple searches after a traffic violation , a suspect managed to sneak a 10-inch gun into a prison last Monday by concealing the weapon in his rectum. <\/p>\n<p>One day later, officers confiscated the .38 revolver from the jail cell of Michael Leon Ward, arrested Jan. 9, a statement from the Onslow County Sheriff&#8217;s Office explains. They&#8217;d performed a strip search on Ward and even required that he &#8220;squat and cough&#8221; to see if he held any contraband, but nothing turned up, according to MSNBC. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My question is: How did he get it in there? Seems improbable.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff&#8217;s press release is <a href=\"http:\/\/bustedlocals.com\/2012\/01\/14\/fugitive-supposedly-hides-gun-in-rectum-and-search-misses-it-onslow-sheriff-press-release\/\">here from another internet source<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I heard from a law enforcement agency, and they say &#8220;Butt first.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}