JACKSON, Miss. – A drone carrying marijuana, cigarette lighters and cellphones got caught in a net above a Mississippi prison fence, resulting in the arrest of two men, state corrections officials said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
John Travis Ross, 33, of Vicksburg and Joshua Ray Corban, 18, of Utica, made initial court appearances Tuesday in Rankin County on charges of conspiracy and attempting to smuggle contraband into the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, the Mississippi Department of Corrections said in a news release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The two were identified after Rankin County sheriff\u2019s investigators traced the drone\u2019s flights \u2014 and then investigators turned up security video of them launching the drone, officials said. Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain said the two confessed. It was not clear whether they had attorneys who could speak for them.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The drone, caught Aug. 26, carried 2 ounces of marijuana buds, a cellphone, phone chargers, headphones, and several cigarette lighters, the corrections department said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThey tried to use the drone to help their friends \u2014 now it\u2019s going to help us,” Cain said, adding that officials plan to reprogram it to use at the state’s maximum-security prison in Parchman, about 115 miles (185 kilometres) north of Pearl. “We\u2019re reprogramming their drone now … so it\u2019s working for the law instead of against it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The drone is the third intercepted at a state prison in recent years, said John Hunt, the department’s director of Investigations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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