POT SMUGGLED INTO PRISON IN CRACKER BOX

A prison guard arrested for allegedly smuggling marijuana into the Lompoc
penitentiary didn't get caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

Federal prosecutors said it was a box of Cheez-It crackers.

John Scott Brooks, 28, of Lompoc, was arrested during a Jan. 9 sting
outside a Santa Maria store after he allegedly accepted two pounds of
marijuana packaged in two Cheez-It boxes to be given to inmates. He was to
get $2,000.

They were the same size boxes sold in the prison commissary and were,
according to FBI documents filed with the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, to
be delivered to inmates by being dropped in a garbage can.