Prisoner smuggled drugs out of prison

A prisoner has been accused of smuggling drugs OUT of jail to sell to college students.

Convicted drugs runner Gerson Vargas, 26, chopped up several ounces of marijuana in his prison cell and cut them into "wraps".

Officers believe Vargas then smuggled the drugs out of Ford open jail in West Sussex, when he attended a catering course. The classes at Chichester College were supposed to help with his rehabilitation, but officers believe he was just using the trips to make money selling drugs.

Vargas, who is serving seven years for smuggling £130,000 worth of cocaine into the UK, was charged by prison bosses and moved to Category B Lewes Prison, in East Sussex. A prison source said: "He was caught in his cell cutting up marijuana the size of two bars of soap, but when cons deal inside jail they don't wrap drugs up."