{"id":619233,"date":"2026-04-21T17:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:14:11","slug":"93k-of-methamphetamine-other-contraband-seized-at-edmonton-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619233\/","title":{"rendered":"$93K of methamphetamine, other contraband seized at Edmonton Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contraband, including methamphetamine, worth an \u201cinstitutional value\u201d of $93,000 was seized at Edmonton Institution earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Correctional Services of Canada says the packages of unauthorized items were seized April 10 \u201cas a result of the vigilance of staff members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The maximum-security federal institution is investigating, and police have been notified.<\/p>\n<p>The CSC says it has several tools in place to prevent drugs from entering prisons, including ion scanners and drug-detector dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contraband, including methamphetamine, worth an \u201cinstitutional value\u201d of $93,000 was seized at Edmonton Institution earlier this month. Correctional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-619233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}