Prison Worker Arrested for Trying to Sneak Drug-Stuffed Burrito into Jail

Burritos are one of the world's most perfect foods, possibly because you can fill a tortilla with almost any combination of ingredients, wrap it tightly, and it'll still taste kind of OK. But, as unfailingly delicious as they are, burritos do have their limitations. They're a poor choice for smuggling drugs, especially if you're trying to sneak weed and Vicodin into a prison, extra-especially if it's the prison where you work.

Kevin Mayo, a detention officer at the Tulsa, Oklahoma jail, was arrested on Friday after he was busted on his way into work, caught with a drug-stuffed tortilla inside a Tupperware container. According to Tulsa World, Mayo had been accused of sneaking contraband into the prison, and was subsequently questioned by officers who asked to search his backpack. At the time of his arrest, Mayo was carrying a burrito filled with four grams of marijuana and crushed hydrocodone pills, a plastic baggie full of meth, two cell phone chargers, two packs of rolling papers, three lighters, a cell phone battery, and "a new cell phone with the plastic wrapping still on it was found in his sock."

The outcome was, well, not good for Mayo. Although he initially denied knowing that there was weed inside his burrito and a phone rubbing against his ankle, he finally confessed. He told authorities that he was asked to take the phone to a specific inmate in the jail and that he had previously smuggled cell phones for other inmates. He was booked into that same jail on a long list of charges and is being held on $35,000 bail.

He's not the first to think that burritos make the perfect drug delivery vehicle. Last May, a 23-year-old woman was caught trying to cross the border from Mexico into Nogales, Arizona with a one-pound bag of meth-filled burritos. A drug dog sniffed them out, and presumably alerted his badge-carrying handlers, who turned her over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.

And, in January 2012, a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was caught by a sting operation after he took "a warm bean and cheese burrito stuffed with 24 grams of black tar heroin" from a police informant. Deputy Henry Marin had been accused of smuggling drugs to Los Angeles inmates, delivering them to the incarcerated leaders of Mexican gangs. Marin was indicted on conspiracy and drug charges and later sentenced to two years in jail.

So yeah, maybe stick with beans and cheese and stuff. The burritos in jail are probably terrible.