Special delivery: Drones are smuggling contraband into California prisons, feds say
Walls and rules have never stopped prisoners from getting what they need. Drugs, phones and other contraband have beenNow, two men are accused of using an increasingly common technology to bypass prison walls: drones.
“There’s a large problem right now with drone activity,” Sgt. Craig Parkhill, a gang investigator at Centinela State Prison, testified at a recent trial in Los Angeles. A sheriff’s official testified at a recent trial that deputies shot down a drone that was flying over a Los Angeles County jail complex in Castaic.
The ring also flew contraband into the North Kern, Corcoran, Pleasant Valley, New Folsom and Centinela state prisons, prosecutors charged.
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