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Police find guns, cash, plasma TV set in a jail cel in northeast Brazil

Tue Jun 3, 8:14 PM

By The Associated Press

SAO PAULO, Brazil - The luxurious lifestyle of a convict in northeastern Brazil has come to an abrupt end after police confiscated a plasma TV set, gym equipment, two pistols and cash worth US$173,000 from his cell.

Bahia's Prison Affairs Department head Jose Francisco Leite said police raided the cell in a statewide crackdown on drug trafficking.

He says authorities have ordered an investigation of how of Genilson Lins da Silva got 280,000 reals (US$173,000), two .38-calibre pistols and other amenities into his cell at the Bahia's Lemos Brito Penitentiary.

Silva is serving 28 years for robbery and murder and was transferred to another prison.

Leite says Silva led a posh prison life in his cell, which he occupied all by himself.