Contraband

Busted: Audacious Drone Contraband Plot Thwarted

Busted: Audacious Drone Contraband Plot Thwarted

A Summerville man was apprehended on April 29 after allegedly attempting to smuggle Contraband into Lee Correctional Institution using a drone. Joshua B. Jordan, 31, now faces charges of furnishing contraband to a prisoner. Authorities report that Jordan tried to…

Drone Drug Deliveries To Prisons Result In 10 Indictments 2

Drone Drug Deliveries to Prisons Result in 10 Indictments

Last week, federal agents dismantled two major drone operations responsible for delivering drugs and Contraband to Pleasant Valley State Prison and the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth. The drones carried marijuana, synthetic cannabis (spice/K2), butane oil, and a variety of other…

Drug-Smuggling Drone Pilot Gets 17 Months Prison Time

Drug-smuggling drone pilot gets 17 months prison time

A 32-year-old drug-smuggling drone pilot from Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands, has been jailed for seventeen months for attempting to smuggle a package with drugs and a telephone into the penitentiary institution (PI) Leeuwarden using a drone. The smuggling attempt with…