A member of a "effectively established" Dundee medication gang which flooded a metropolis with heroin and cocaine had his jail sentence prolonged for a second time after being caught with an unlawful telephone card in his cell.
George Black, 34, was sentenced in 2019 to 4 years and 4 months in jail after admitting trafficking heroin for the gang.
Police mentioned on the time that he was a part of a "giant scale operation" intent on distributing lots of of 1000's of kilos value of medication on the streets of Dundee.
He was caught with the unlawful SIM-card by jail warders deploying a telephone sign detection gadget on his wing at Glenochil Jail, close to Alloa, Clackmannanshire.
Alloa Sheriff Court docket heard on Monday that it confirmed up exercise in his cell, and officers burst in to seek out Black attempting to stuff a cell phone inside his trousers.
Prosector Suzannah Hutchison mentioned the telephone was seized and examined, and located to have an ordinary Vodafone SIM card.
The incident occurred round 7pm on June twenty first, 2021.
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Showing by video hyperlink from the highest safety jail, Black, from Dundee, pleaded responsible to having an unauthorised private communication gadget in jail.
Prisoners in Scottish jails are actually issued with cell phones and locked SIM playing cards, as a part of relaxations launched throughout the Covid pandemic.
Outgoing calls made on the jail-issue units might be monitored and will solely be attainable to numbers already included in current prisoner name lists. The telephones usually are not textual content or Web enabled, and are unable to obtain incoming calls.
Nonetheless, inserting an ordinary SIM card into the units circumvents a few of these restrictions.
Representing Black, solicitor Gary Foulis mentioned the official units rationed calls to 300 minutes a month.
He mentioned Black was "having difficulties on the time" and "made the poor choice" to make use of an unlawful SIM card.
He mentioned Black had "held his fingers up" instantly it was discovered.
Sheriff Neil Bowie handed Black an additional 140 day sentence - consecutive to the jail time period he's already serving.
He mentioned: "These guidelines are in place for a superb motive, as you effectively knew."
It's the second time this yr that Black has been handed further time by the Alloa sheriff.
In March Black admitted having a sharpened plastic spoon in his cell, which he claimed he had "due to issues about violence within the jail", and was jailed for an additional six months.
The improvised weapon was discovered solely six days earlier than the SIM card.
Earlier than the most recent extension, Black's earliest date of launch was mentioned to be "early 2024".
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