Richwood police accuse a Marrero man of trying to slip marijuana to an inmate in the Richwood jail.
The News-Star reports that 36-year-old Davion Matthews was booked into the Ouachita Correctional Center on Saturday on charges of possessing marijuana and bringing contraband into a penal facility.
An arrest affidavit says a guard at Richwood Correctional Center called police after allegedly seeing Matthews slide something under a cell door. It says police searched the cell and found a bag of suspected marijuana.
Bond was $750 on the marijuana charge.