Posted on 06/25/2026 9:26:40 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The Justice Department has announced charges in a “sophisticated” criminal operation that it says used high-powered drones to deliver weapons, drugs, cell phones and escape tools into prisons in east coast states.
US Attorney Keyes the middle district of Georgia, Federal Bureau of Prisons and FBI investigators in Atlanta, say the rogue drone operation led out of a former daycare in Macon, Georgia where multiple drones were launched on covert missions to deliver the contraband by air to 10 federal prisons at night.
“We’re here to announce the unsealing of an indictment that charges the most sophisticated and sprawling criminal enterprise using drones to introduce contraband into the federal prison system ever charged by the Department of Justice,” Keyes said during a press conference.
The 17-count federal indictment alleges the group used at least six separate drones to deliver a wide-ranging bazaar of contraband to federal prisons at least 38 times, including methamphetamine, synthetic marijuana, suboxone, cocaine, cell phones, tobacco, cigarettes, drug-infused papers, and even saw blades “designed and intended to be used as weapons and to facilitate escape.”
Prosecutors say in the indictment that inmates inside the prisons used illegal phones to help guide the drone pilots on the outside, sometimes even sending maps in real time to help the pilots deliver trash bags and astroturf stuffed with weapons, various narcotics, and cell phones.
In some cases, prison corrections officers recovered bags stuffed with drugs and other contraband just minutes after the drones landed, and in other cases the drops vanished before authorities located them, according to law enforcement.
“The allegations outlined in this indictment describe a coordinated criminal effort involving heavy payload drones to introduce dangerous contraband into federal prisons across multiple states,” William K. Marshall III, Director of the BOP said in Macon on Wednesday.
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If only they used their talents for good instead of evil. SMH
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A daycare center?
Hmmmm….
Pretty despicable.
Keeping these upright citizens in their cells 23 hours a day would curtail most of that... just saying
HOORAY Dept. of Justice!
Cover existing prisons in concrete. Bury new prisons underground.
Antiaircraft guns on all the walls guided by sight and radar. If you’re dumb enough to be out when the shooting starts that’s your tough luck.
ANY prisoner caught with a cell phone, drugs or any contraband gets 5 years hard time added to their sentence.
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