According to the report, state inspectors reviewed security footage and found that the personal wheelchair “had not been searched for contraband upon entry.”
A state inspection found that Harris County Jail officials failed to search a prisoner’s wheelchair when he was booked in October, allowing the man to smuggle a loaded handgun into the facility. The gun was inside the jail for more than a month before it was confiscated by authorities.
The inspection occurred in mid-December about a month after the gun was found inside the seat cushion of a wheelchair used by 53-year-old Tyrone Kennedy. According to the report, state inspectors reviewed security footage and found that Kennedy’s personal wheelchair “had not been searched for contraband upon entry” when he was booked into the jail in October.
“As a result, contraband items were introduced into the jail,” the report read…