Humboldt Jail’s New Body Scanner Reveals 50 Xanax Pills in Suspect’s Underwear
The Xanax
Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office press release:
Remington
Humboldt County Correctional Deputies stopped a woman from smuggling controlled prescription
medication into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility thanks, in part, to the facility’s new full
body scanner.
Around 9:50 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2018 an officer with the Arcata Police Department brought Jamie
Marie Remington, 26, into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility to be booked on felony
charges. The officer alerted correctional deputies that Remington had possibly tried to conceal
something during the arrest process. During a pat search of Remington, deputies were unable to
locate contraband. A female correctional deputy performed a full body scan with the facility’s
body scanner. The scan revealed contraband located inside Remington’s underwear. Deputies
searched Remington and found 50, 2mg Xanax tablets.
The body scanner
Remington was booked into the facility on the following charges: assault with a deadly weapon
other than a firearm, felony vandalism, smuggling a controlled substance into a correctional
facility, assault, battery and possession of a controlled substance.
On April 22, 2016 the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office received funding from the Community
Corrections Partnership, a committee formed as a result of AB 109 Prison Realignment Act, for
the purchase and implementation of the full body scanner. This scanner is capable of looking
through clothing and inside the human body for hidden contraband or weapons being smuggled
into the correctional facility. The full body scanner has proven to be a helpful tool in our effort to
make the Humboldt County Correctional Facility a safe and drug-free environment, allowing
deputies to minimize the amount of drugs and contraband smuggled into the facility.