Posted on 02/18/2025 2:33:43 PM PST by DFG
During what had to be one hell of a brainstorming session, a couple of men from Colorado came up with a plan to smuggle tens of thousands of dollars worth of drugs into a federal prison. They'd launch the items over a security fence with the use of a cannon.
The two were arrested by the Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana following an investigation. According to a Facebook post by the sheriff's office, they were attempting to smuggle $112,000 worth of tobacco and $89,500 worth of methamphetamine into a prison.
The plan was to use the cannon, which uses compressed air, not gunpowder like the old-fashioned cannons, to launch the contraband over the security fence at the federal prison. The sheriff’s office stated that the cannon had a range of over 350 feet.
18-year-old Jose Francisco Herrera Munoz and 19-year-old Angel Gonzales Gutierrez, both of Greely, Colorado, were arrested for Attempting to Introduce Contraband into a Penal Institution and Attempting to Distribute Methamphetamine.
The Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office added that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had assisted in the investigation because one of the men involved is allegedly in the country illegally. They have a detainer for Munoz.
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The title would lack punch if they just said “spud gun.”
LOL! Greely, Colorado via the Rio Grande.
One word: Drones.
Drone drone drone
It’s 2025 after all
Seems like more of a Florida man thing.
Give them an “A” for originality.
Not from the Bee.
No “floridaman” tag.
Einstein said it best, “Only 2 things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the universe.”
There was an episode of Batman where the Joker escaped from a prison like that. It wasn’t explained how he got the materials into the prison or how he assembled them even if
they were already there.
Trebuchet would be fun. I lived in a town that had a cabbage festival every fall. The contests of cabbage head launching was awesome. 40 pound cabbages hurled 200 yards with trebuchets. The cannons would knock old mini vans onto their side with a direct hit.
according to the article, that’s $200K worth of drugs, who paid for it and how much did these guys make doing it.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if they sent Fentanyl that was just a tad too strong? It might even change the balance of power between prison gangs.
Launching contraband into prisons been on more than one television program in the last couple of years
Next time they may as well hop on in with the payload.
a trebuchet wasn’t available?
Dumb asses should have used a catapult at night.
I watched such a transfer for myself when walking alongside a multi-story Miami-Dade jail after dark.
Inmates had launched a string to the ground, where drugs (or maybe weapons) were tied onto it and hauled up. The string was doubled in length, so a continuous bucket-brigade of contraband could be hauled up.
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