Pistol Found In Varner Prison Dorm
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
State police and prison officials are trying to
find out how a two-shot, .22-caliber derringer pistol got into a
dormitory barracks shared by 50 prison inmates.
The gun was discovered about yesterday morning at the prison
system`s Cummins Unit, as guards searched the barracks where
inmates designated as trusties live.
Prison spokeswoman Dina Tyler said the search was begun after an
inmate in the barracks complained of shoulder pain, and said he
thought he had been shot. Doctors later found that a bullet in his
shoulder was from an old wound, and Tyler said guards on duty
Wednesday night said they heard no shots.
The gun was found inside a work glove, under the bed of another
trusty in the barracks where the complaining inmate lived.
