The suspects - a 22-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman - surrendered on Tuesday in connection with a plot at federal prisons across the country.
Harris County authorities detained a man and a woman who are accused of a nationwide plot to use drones to airdrop drugs behind federal prison walls.A man and a woman, who are accused in a scheme to get drugs into federal prisons across the U.S., turned themselves in to the Harris County Jail on Tuesday afternoon.The sheriff's office in Grant Parish said it uncovered the scheme during a traffic stop near the federal prison in Pollock, Louisiana, almost three weeks ago.
"You can see these orange drones in front of me," Sheriff McCain said during a news conference. "Law enforcement recovered these drones, it was being used to drop the stuff across the fence inside of the fence of the federal prison. The cans weren't open like this when they were discovered. These were filled with drugs. These drone has an actuator on there that the operator pushes a button on the remote control and releases the package.
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