Muslim chaplain 'smuggled' box-cutter blades into jail

[Rev.Cambeul]

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A Muslim chaplain for the city Department of Correction was arrested this morning for allegedly trying to smuggle in three box-cutter blades and a pair of scissors to a lower Manhattan jail, The Post has learned.

The chaplain, Zul-Qarnain Shahid, has worked as a DOC jail chaplain for the past three years, department sources said.

Several sources said Shahid was caught this morning attempting to bring the three triangle-shaped utility blades, often used for box cutters, into the jail known as the Tombs during a visit there. It was not known why the Muslim cleric, who has the title imam, was visiting the jail.


A DOC spokesman had no immediate comment.

According to New York State Corrections Department records, a now-58-year-old man with the same name as Shahid was sentenced to 15-years-to-life in prison for second-degree murder and first-degree robbery in 1979. That man was paroled in 1993 after serving nearly 14 years, and remained on parole until August 2001.

A DOC chaplain assigned to the Tombs – politically connected rabbi Leib Glanz – resigned last year after The Post exclusively revealed that he had organized a bar mitzvah party within the jail's walls for the son of an inmate. The bar mitzvah featured catered food and a live band, as well as dozens of non-inmate guests.

A Department of Investigation probe into that incident has dragged on for months, with no official result.

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