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Police catch man who hid marijuana around penis

PAUL MCLEOD, METRO HALIFAX
June 17, 2008 5:00 a.m.
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Getting caught with marijuana by police is bad enough. But the drug arrest of John Christopher Williams, 34, was particularly embarrassing.

Williams has a lengthy criminal record and had failed to show up for court dates more than once, leading to a warrant for his arrest. When police found and arrested him they didn’t find any drugs on him and Williams didn’t say anything.

It was only when he was being checked in to prison that guards discovered nine grams of marijuana wrapped around his penis. Williams says it was all a misunderstanding.

He appeared yesterday in Dartmouth Provincial Court under charges of smuggling drugs into prison.

His lawyer said Williams now realizes he should have told police about the pot sooner. He was sentenced to thirty days in prison.

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