Jailers find smokeless tobacco between inmate's buttocks

Some people enjoy a pinch of smokeless tobacco between their cheek and gum.

A Gastonia man put some Wintergreen flavour between a different set of cheeks as he tried to smuggle the contraband into Gaston County Jail on Saturday, according to a warrant affidavit.



Asheton Killiant Biggerstaff, 24, of Mount Holly was returning to jail from work release when two officers searched him. The two officers, Deputy Roy Weaver and Cpl. Weylan Purser, found two bags of Wintergreen smokeless tobacco hidden between his buttocks.

Biggerstaff was placed in Gaston County Jail under a $500 bond on a charge of inmate possessing tobacco. The warrant does not state whether Biggerstaff planned to later put the smokeless tobacco in his mouth.