That raises the possibility that an employee of a state-owned marijuana bank could be charged federally with drug money laundering, Hasegawa said. Yes, we would be assuming risks. There's no question about it,Hasegawa said.
Two correction officers at USP McCreary were stabbed on November 8, 2010. A prison spokesperson told the Associated Press that the officers were conducting routine cell searches when an inmate attacked them with a homemade prison knife known as a shank..
Crandall said that while the jail does not keep records, officials believe that it was the first suicide in the facility in at least three decades or more. Sharp hanged himself by a bedsheet in his cell and was found by corrections officers at approximately 1:30 a.m. Monday. He was alone in the locked cell at the time. Corrections officers worked to revive him at the jail before an ambulance was called, but he died at Houlton Regional Hospital.