Remember the good old days when prisoners received contraband items hidden inside chocolate cake and cookies – PB/TK
Drone carrying cell phone, marijuana crashes in prison yard – By Rhonda Cook / July 25 2017
A drone carrying cell phones, tobacco and marijuana crashed into the yard at Washington State Prison, according to the Department of Corrections.
A growing problem, drones have become the newest way inmates have used to get contraband that can be sold to other prisoners for a significant profit.
Corrections spokeswoman Joan Heath said Tuesday a drone crashed to the ground at the prison near Davisboro around 10:45 p.m. Monday. She could not say how many cell phones or how much tobacco and marijuana was recovered. No one inside or outside the prison has been connected to the drone, she said.
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