Man jailed for throwing heroin to inmate wife

[jnelsoninjax]

An Anchorage man is charged with throwing a tennis ball containing heroin over a jailhouse fence to his wife inside, and while he's now behind bars, the wife bailed out before investigators connected her to the drugs.

Caley Jake Gibbons tossed the ball -- wrapped in duct tape and holding heroin, syringes and chewing tobacco -- over a fence at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in late September, according to a charging document. Alaska State Troopers say Gibbons, 34, heaved the ball for his wife, Rebecca Pendleton. Troopers are looking for Pendleton, 35, after she posted bail and left Hiland in the midst of the ongoing drug investigation.

It was July 23 when Gibbons and Pendleton were both arrested and charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing more than $1,000 worth of merchandise from Nordstrom. They told an officer they took the items for a friend, the charges say. Court records show Gibbons bailed out the next day, but Pendleton remained held at Hiland.

About 7 p.m. Sept. 24, two inmates at Hiland watched a pickup stop on its way out the driveway of the medium-security women's prison in Eagle River. Each woman, in separate reports to corrections officers, said they saw a man got out of the pickup and throw something over the outside fence. But he apparently failed to chuck the package hard enough, because it didn't make it over a second fence, the charges say.

"... The male looked visibly upset when the package didn't make it over both fences," a witness later told the corrections officers, according to the charges.

The man, later identified as Gibbons, drove away.

It's unclear from the charging document when the witnesses reported what they'd seen. Officers found the package the next morning. They called the troopers.

Trooper Curtis Vik drove to Hiland and removed the gray duct tape and plastic that was wrapped around the tennis ball, Vik wrote in the charges. The ball was cut open on one side. There was a condom inside holding chewing tobacco, two small syringes and what Vik verified, using a test kit, as black tar heroin, the charges say. The heroin weighed 1.3 grams, enough for 13 doses of one-tenth of a gram each, he wrote.

A dose of heroin at Hiland goes for about $80, versus $60 on the street, troopers said.

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[Growled Member]

Someone this dumb needs to be locked up before they harm someone.

[Japlabot]

Should have used a potato gun

[moloko]

haha he did not throw it hard enough. that really sucks for him.

[Osiris]

lol oh well don't do the crime if you can't do the time lob the ball past the 2nd fence.

[*RedBull*]

Yea biggest fail was the toss.

[Open Minded]

So would you say, she's the :cool: ...heroine of the story?

(I'll show myself out)

[Arachno 1D]

Should have use a remote contolled plane