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Ohio prison yard free-for-all after drone drops drugs

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/04/us/prison-yard-drone-drugs-ohio/index.html

(CNN)Ohio prisons have had incidents with drones hovering over their yards before. But the most recent one saw the unmanned aerial vehicle become a high-flying drug mule.

Officers rushed into the north yard of Mansfield Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Ohio, last week after noticing 75 inmates gathering and a fight breaking out, according to an incident report from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

It wasn't until authorities later reviewed surveillance tape that they saw what led to the fisticuffs: A drone had flown over the yard, an aerial vehicle that authorities later determined dropped a package.

Inmates were able to get their hands on the delivery containing 144.5 grams of tobacco, 65.4 grams of marijuana and 6.6 grams of heroin before the fight ensued and the package was thrown into the prison's south yard, the incident report said.

If the heroin is half pure, that package amounts to about 140 individual doses, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

Officers had to use pepper spray to get the situation under control, according to the report. Inmates were later strip-searched before being allowed to return to their cells.

Nine inmates were placed in solitary confinement following the incident.

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Authorities later found the package in an equipment room in the southern part of the facility, the report says.

This is not the first time an Ohio prison has had an incident with unmanned aerial vehicles, according to Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections spokeswoman JoEllen Smith. She declined to elaborate further because of a potential security risk.

Ohio authorities are now on the lookout for more attempts to use drones to smuggle drugs over prison walls and into inmates hands.

"It's something we're certainly aware of," Smith said. "We're taking a broad approach to increasing staff awareness and detection."

Like the other drone thread we had. waiting for combat air drones to go around buzz sawing these things out of the sky.


Also cant wait to see something silly like a gun dropped in.

 Desubot wrote:
Like the other drone thread we had. waiting for combat air drones to go around buzz sawing these things out of the sky.


Also cant wait to see something silly like a gun dropped in.

How do you know one wasn't, hmmm? The "fight" was merely a diversion!

Such genius

Much tactical.

What's amusing to me is supposedly how "novel" these things with drones are. It's not like model airplanes haven't been around for years, or even kites/gliders before that.

Of course, airdropping drugs into a prison yard sounds like something someone might have done just for the lulz. Could probably do that on a regular basis, make the video feed pay-per-view, and make lots of money for the county/state.

Over in our backwards nation we have to make use of Oranges stuffed with drugs chucked over our prison walls and dead pigeons, with their innards replaced with goodies,and wings wired straight to act as gliders.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
What's amusing to me is supposedly how "novel" these things with drones are. It's not like model airplanes haven't been around for years, or even kites/gliders before that.

Of course, airdropping drugs into a prison yard sounds like something someone might have done just for the lulz. Could probably do that on a regular basis, make the video feed pay-per-view, and make lots of money for the county/state.

I lost you on the last part.

Wouldn't a video feed of something like that be pretty easy to track down and prosecute?

 Desubot wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
What's amusing to me is supposedly how "novel" these things with drones are. It's not like model airplanes haven't been around for years, or even kites/gliders before that.

Of course, airdropping drugs into a prison yard sounds like something someone might have done just for the lulz. Could probably do that on a regular basis, make the video feed pay-per-view, and make lots of money for the county/state.

I lost you on the last part.

Wouldn't a video feed of something like that be pretty easy to track down and prosecute?

I think he means a legal bearpit of drug taking inmates. Film the results and profit! Stars made overnight! The sad toll of drugs on these new found stars!

E! will que up for this shizz.

They didn't know a drone had flown over until after they watched a surveillance tape? What, OH prisons don't have manned outdoor pickets?

To be fair depending on how big it is or how high its flying it could of just seemed like a bird.

Waiting for all prisons to start equipping short range radar and SAMs

Who needs SAMs? Just hire that guy with the birdshot.