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Drone Drops Drugs Into Ohio Prison Yard, Inmate Brawl Ensues

posted by takyon on Saturday August 08 2015, @02:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the outmate dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

a drone carrying heroin, marijuana, and tobacco dropped its payload over a prison yard crowded with inmates, causing a brief melee before authorities stamped out the brawl with pepper spray, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC).

Local media reported Tuesday that the July 29 melee at the Mansfield Correctional Institution began moments after a drone let loose with the goods. At least nine inmates began fighting over the package while other inmates rushed toward the brawl.

Hmm, time for cryo prisons? Or should the drug delivery man switch to drones that can travel through the plumbing?

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  • (Score: 2) by MrGuy on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:11PM

    by MrGuy (1007) on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:11PM (#219879)

    Until someone uses drones to drop GUNS in prison yards, bought second hand for cash at gun shows (and so effectively untraceable).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:30PM (#219885)

    That has been done. Packages tied to cats. Thrown over the fence. Catapulted from blocks away. Packages dropped from planes with parachutes. Mini helicopters. Name it. Someone either has tried it or will.

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anne Nonymous on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:33PM

      by Anne Nonymous (712) on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:33PM (#219887)

      > Packages tied to cats. Catapulted from blocks away.

      Meeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooowwwwww.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:37PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:37PM (#219891)

        What if the cat decided to get high off a drug package. Will it be gang executed for stealing contraband from a drug lord? Will it go on the gangs wanted list as a lesson to all other cats for daring to defy the drug lords and steal from them? Will someone please think of the kittens!!!!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:34PM (#219889)

      what about 'homing' birds ...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @12:05AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @12:05AM (#220490)

        They are typically trained to fly home. The trouble you'd have is training them to fly to the prison.

        Other than homing pigeons, which can't really carry a lot of weight, I don't know what other birds can be trained in this manner and would be able to carry a reasonable amount of weight to be useful for this purpose even if they can be trained to fly to a prison.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:31PM (#219886)

    Or tools that can help inmates escape. Perhaps that's partly how El Chapo managed to escape.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:36PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:36PM (#219890) Journal

      I think El Chapo just gave orders, and his lieutenants took care of all the details. Seriously, one guy didn't buy the land to begin construction of a house, dig that tunnel, and build the little loco-bike in the tunnel, all while showing up for roll call in a jail cell. El Chapo didn't need any tools - he speaks, and the tools just do all the work.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:40PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:40PM (#219892)

        Sure, of course, but how did his minions sneak stuff into jail. Perhaps he (or his network) used drones.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @04:23PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @04:23PM (#219901)

          Unlikely, there would be no reason to go through the prison when they could start at the unwatched residence.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @04:24PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @04:24PM (#219902)

            Agreed, it was just a suggestion.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @07:53PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @07:53PM (#219961)

            It is unlikely but everything else surrounding El Chapo that did happen was also very unlikely. The whole story looks like it came out of a Hollywood movie so nothing would surprise me.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @06:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @06:52PM (#219949)

      Why 80 Percent Of Mexicans Don’t Believe The Official Story On El Chapo’s Escape [thinkprogress.org]

      Many have put forth their own ideas about what they believe actually happened. Some have said that Guzman walked out of the front door and others [think that he] was never even sent to prison. A lot of the theories point to some level of government collusion with a mob boss.

      The government’s release of surveillance footage that shows Guzman slipping through a hole in the floor of his cell and disappearing in a matter of seconds has only added to the public skepticism.

      After looking [at] documents she obtained from an ongoing investigation into the matter, Anabel Hernandez, an investigative reporter with the Mexican magazine Proceso, said that the story just doesn’t add up.

      [...]the government hid the audio of that video because, of course, the audio of that video proves that the government has enough information minutes before the escape and didn’t want to stop El Chapo,” Hernandez said.

      [...]the amount of dirt that would have had to have been removed from the mile-long tunnel rendered the possibility of that escape route implausible.

      As unlikely as it seems, the tunnel might be the most believable aspect of the story of Guzman’s great escape.

      -- gewg_

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @03:46PM (#219894)

    > Until someone uses drones to drop GUNS in prison yards, bought second hand for cash at gun shows (and so effectively untraceable).

    Guns are not generally useful in prison because they draw so much attention when used. It makes them single-use and a guarantee of being caught. A cool movie plot, but not much value in real life.