Sun, Aug 3, 2014

A drone wreckage  believed to have been used in an attempt to smuggle phones, marijuana, and tobacco has been found outside a maximum security prison in South Carolina.

It is believed to have been used in an attempt to smuggle the items into the Lee Correctional Institution.

The discovery precipitated an investigation that would later lead to the arrest of 28-year-old Brenton Lee Doyle and a search for a second suspect.

Stephanie Givens, the State Department of Corrections spokeswoman is cited as stating “officials believe it was the first time an unmanned aircraft had been used in an effort to breach prison walls in the state.”

Similar cases have cropped up across the world. Earlier this year, Australian authorities arrested a man accused of piloting a drug-laden drone and before that, four people were apprehended in Georgia on charges of delivering tobacco to a prison yard with a UAV. essential part of a smuggler’s inventory.