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2 Men In Custody For Suspicion Of Trying To Smuggle Dope & Porn By Drone Into A Maryland Prison

What in the name of everything is wrong with people??  Technology is a wonderful thing but for those who have no clue whatsoever as how to utilize it properly really just need to go to the back of the class and have several seats.  Attempting to “fly” anything over a prison using a drone or any other airborne apparatus is by far the “nuttiest” thing anyone could ever do.  Guess the culprits thought they could get away with it and they just may end up in the same place they were allegedly attempting to fly contraband into.  Welp, they can cancel Christmas!!

Read more as reported by The Telegraph:

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Two men are in custody in the US state of Maryland on suspicion of trying to smuggle drugs and pornography into a prison with a drone, officials have said.

Synthetic marijuana and bootleg pornographic DVDs were among the items that the duo intended to fly into the state prison in Cumberland.

“You couldn’t make this stuff up,” Maryland’s Secretary of Public Safety Stephen Moyer was quoted as telling local reporters.

The Maryland Department of Public Safety said in a statement that the two suspects were arrested on a road that runs by the Western Correctional Institution.

In their vehicle, officers found a quadracopter and its remote control flying console, as well as a handgun, the statement alleged.

Both men were being held in Cumberland – one on $250,000 bail and the other without bail – on suspicion of plotting to use a drone to airlift contraband into a correctional facility.

An inmate suspected of participating in the foiled effort is also facing charges after a search of his prison cell turned up contraband, the statement said.

It was thought to be the first time in Maryland that smugglers have been caught using a drone to overfly a prison wall.

Earlier this month, a bid to airlift tobacco, marijuana and heroin into an Ohio prison using a drone triggered a melee among some 75 inmates.

In July 2014, another drone bearing marijuana, tobacco and cell phones crashed outside a wire fence that surrounds a maximum security facility in South Carolina.

Source: The Telegraph

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