美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-06-28

 The corrections officer, Gene¹ Palmer who passed that meat with hacksaw blades to killer² Richard Matt has now been arrested. Earlier tonight, the local D.A. told us that Palmer had also given Matt and David Sweat access to the catwalk that they eventually used to escape. Jason Carroll has the breaking news, joins us now. So what are you learning about the charges against this guy, Gene Palmer? 

 

Well, there are several charges, Anderson that we are hearing about. This according to his attorney whom I spoke³ to just a short while ago. He said that Gene Palmer has been charged with the following, promoting dangerous contraband⁴, destroying evidence, official misconduct, in terms of destroying evidence that could be, reference to some of the paintings that Richard Matt has made. You've heard about those in the past. Apparently⁵ he gave, or may have given some paintings and/or drawings to Gene Palmer as well. And then shortly after Gene Palmer found out about what had happened with the escape, he allegedly destroyed some of those paintings and/or drawings. So that could be part of the reason why you see that destroying evidence charge. 

 

I also as I said, I spoke to his attorney a little while ago. He says that his client is very upset. He says that his client had no knowledge at all of what was inside that frozen chunk⁶ of hamburger meat that Joyce Mitchell, you already know about her, that she had convinced Gene Palmer to pass that on to Richard Matt. 

 

So now, we have two prison employees, Joyce Mitchell whom you already know was charged in her connection with the escape. Now you have Gene Palmer who has also been charged. But once again his attorney says he did not know what was inside that slab⁷ of meat. His attorney also says Anderson, he had absolutely no knowledge of any escape plan, Anderson. 

 

We should point out, Jason, though the attorney is saying he didn't know obviously that there was something hidden in the meat, or perhaps not, apparently that's the claim that he didn't know. He did and the attorney has admitted he neglected to put the hamburger meat through a metal detector⁸ that would have discovered this.

 

That's correct. And once again, this was a clear violation⁹ of prison policy. That is something that was acknowledged by his attorney early on. But he just wanted to emphasize that even though that he had made that mistake, and he just wanted to emphasize this was also a man who had relied on Richard Matt and David Sweat over a period of time as a source, if you will. He said often times he would lean on both of them for information about other inmates¹⁰ there in the prison who could have caused trouble. So he said there was some sort of a relationship there. He was hesitant to use the word trust, but he said, he didn't, it didn't seem to be anything unusual about wanting to pass something along. But it was a violation of prison policy, not checking that meat, not passing it through a metal detector. That's part of the reason why you are seeing some of the charges we are seeing here (tonight).

1 gene   

n.遗传因子，基因

参考例句：

• A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
• The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。

2 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

4 contraband   

n.违禁品，走私品

参考例句：

• Most of the city markets were flooded with contraband goods.大多数的城市市场上都充斥着走私货。
• The customs officers rummaged the ship suspected to have contraband goods.海关人员仔细搜查了一艘有走私嫌疑的海轮。

5 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

6 chunk   

n.厚片，大块，相当大的部分（数量）

参考例句：

• They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。
• The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。

7 slab   

n.平板，厚的切片；v.切成厚板，以平板盖上

参考例句：

• This heavy slab of oak now stood between the bomb and Hitler.这时笨重的橡木厚板就横在炸弹和希特勒之间了。
• The monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab.这座纪念碑由两根垂直的柱体构成，它们共同支撑着一块平板。

8 detector   

n.发觉者，探测器

参考例句：

• The detector is housed in a streamlined cylindrical container.探测器安装在流线型圆柱形容器内。
• Please walk through the metal detector.请走过金属检测器。

9 violation   

n.违反(行为)，违背(行为)，侵犯

参考例句：

• He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说，那是违反规则的。
• He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。

10 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》