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Posted on Wed, Dec. 28, 2011
Man stopped with alleged prison-bound contraband, again

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Updated 1 p.m. to correct name of arresting officer.

An 18-year-old man was stopped and charged with traffic violations for the second time this year and found to have what law enforcement officers suspect to be contraband bound for the Lee Correctional Facility in his van.

Eighteen-year-old Jonathan Hugo Gonzalez was charged with speeding and driving under suspension. His license was suspended because he has failed to pay fines associated with a previous stop in September, the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office said.

In that stop, deputy Brad Lawson charged Gonzales with traffic violations but also found “a considerable amount of tobacco and cell phones that had been prepared to be thrown over the fence,” the sheriff’s office said. There is no law against having cell phones and tobacco wrapped in duct tape, so Gonzales has not been charged for possessing those items, although the sheriff’s office confiscated them.

On Friday, Gonzales was stopped – by Lawson, again – in a minivan for driving 89 mph in a 70 mph zone on Interestate 20 in Kershaw County. Lawson recognized Gonzales and asked him if he had “any contraband”, the sheriff’s office said.

The sheriff’s office said Gonzales admitted to having items he intended to throw over the fence at Lee. Gonzales told Lawson he had been waiting all day at a hotel near the prison waiting for an opportunity to make his toss, but was foiled by a constant presence of prison workers.

Lawson found 14 packages of tobacco wrapped in duct tape, 10 cell phones and nine cell phone chargers.