When Jacob Armstrong was arrested last Thursday and went through the intake process at the Moore County Detention Center, he was asked multiple times if he had any foreign objects or substances that could cause harm to himself or any of the detention officers. He said no.
Then he went through a new step in the intake process: the Tek 84 Intercept Whole Body Security Scanning System.
Jacob Armstrong
The full-body scan revealed a concealed bag containing 88 dosage units of Alprazolam pills â the generic version of the anxiety medicine Xanax â that went undetected through a pat-down search.
Findings like that were the goal when the $149,000 unit was purchased to provide a more thorough, and less invasive, means to protect inmates and detention officers from smuggling contraband into the jail.