A LARGE load of contraband came into the Chelan County Regional Justice Centre in Washington on Wednesday night, leaving law enforcement officers amazed.

Gavin Stanger, 24, of East Wenatchee, was booked into jail on a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, said Phil Stanley, jail administrator. The inmate had arranged to serve three days in jail on the charge.

He said no contraband was found on a pat-down search or on a later strip search.

About 90 minutes later, with Stanger in a single holding jail, a jailer found a plastic bag and duct tape floating in the cell’s toilet. After being questioned by jailers, Stanger surrendered the contraband.

He had in his rectum a green cigarette lighter, cigarette rolling papers, a golf-ball size bag of tobacco, a bottle of tattoo ink, eight tattoo needles, a one-inch-long smoking pipe and a small bag of suspected marijuana, said Sergeant. John Kruse, a Wenatchee Police Department spokesman.

“We were all wondering, ‘How do you put all that up there?’ ” Kruse said. “The tobacco was pretty impressive; it was a good ounce.”

Stanger will be charged with another misdemeanor: introduction of contraband into the jail, Kruse said.

Originally published as Crook's heavy bum rap