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Suspect Charged With Attempt To Deliver Drugs, Phones, Smokes Into Century Prison
August 26, 2021
A suspect allegedly prepared to throw contraband over the fence at the Century Correctional Institution was captured Tuesday afternoon after a manhunt.
Dickale Tanzano Cothrell, age 35 of Orlando, was arrested on a criminal offense of introduction of a contraband into a state correctional facility and one count of interference with prisoners. He was charged by the Florida Department of Corrections Office of the Inspector General.
About 7:50 a.m. Tuesday, Cothrell was reportedly spotted at the perimeter fence of the east side of Century CI. That led to a lockdown of the facility and a prisoner count, while a perimeter and manhunt occurred outside the facility.
Two Century correctional officers found Cothrell on east side of the prison Tuesday afternoon, and he was detained by two Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputies. Corrections officers recovered a package that was ready to be introduced into the facility, according to an arrest report.
The package contained three cellphones, 23.8 grams of suspected synthetic cannabis (commonly known as “spice”), 111..5 grams of cigarettes, a cellphone charger and two charging cables.
Cothrell remained in the Escambia County Jail Thursday with bond set at $3,000.
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6 Responses to “Suspect Charged With Attempt To Deliver Drugs, Phones, Smokes Into Century Prison”
Great job by all involved! Both the Prison Staff and the ECSO.
Minimum $ bonds? Really? Surprised? Yup, that’s how they roll in Escambia County.
A man in New York shot a guy in the face, put the gun down and surrendered to police and was released 2 hours later.
A man in Portland robbed a bank, stashed the money, turned himself in, was released the same day, robbed a bank next to the first one, stashed the money, turned himself in, was released THE SAME DAY! and robbed one final bank, turned himself in, was released and he made it home in time for dinner.
Considering the above stories a $3000 bond is actually a step in the right direction….
Think of all the harm that could come to correctional officers and inmates if the spice had made it into the prison.
So let me get this right this man has double the bond amount for trying to introduce contraband into a correction facility, but a man that trespass on a woman’s property and gets charged with aggravated battery with her own stick found in his vehicle only has a bond of $1,600 there is something seriously wrong with our judicial system.
A $3000 bond? That’s frigging incredible. The charges seems lame considering what he was about to do.