Drone crash in the SC prison courtyard leads to Meth smuggling for Trio

By Noah Feit
The State

Columbia, SC – a program too Smuggling drugs in a federal prison A drone failed in South Carolina. The plan was then missing against the people involved when two residents of Georgia were convicted of joining an inmate behind bars in the federal prison, according to the US law firm.

Jerrell Antonio Roberts (36), who is currently a federal occupant, together with Savannah, Georgia, the inhabitants Antoinette Tyeisha Ricks (36) and Tyree O'bryant Russell, 23 sentenced to several years in the federal prisonThe US law firm said in a press release. All three guilty of a program to smuggle methamphetamine into the federal prison.

Russell was sentenced to 2 years behind bars and Ricks was convicted of more than 3 years after the release was guilty of providing a federal prisoner to provide meth to a federal prisoner.

Roberts had contributed another 110 months (more than 9 years) in the federal prison in his time after he had guilty to try to have Meth as a federal prisoner as a federal prisoner, said the US law firm. Roberts' new prison sentence will take place after the publication the federal prison sentence, which he is currently serving.

A three-year term with judicial supervision follows all three punishments, the US law firm said. There is no probation in the federal system.

The convictions come from an incident on November 6, 2022 at A Federal prison in South Carolina Where Roberts was locked up according to the publication.

In the early morning, an unmanned drone crashed in the courtyard in the prison facility, the US law firm said. The The drone was equipped with a skyhookWhat would make it possible to wear something and crashed near the drone, the law enforcement officers found a package that was wrapped in electronics charging devices in accordance with the press release. The package contained about 38 grams of pure meth, said the US law firm.

Additional investigations showed that, according to the release with Ricks and Russell, Roberts worked for the distribution in the federal prison in order to obtain meth for the distribution in the federal prison.

“Crime doesn't stop when the defendants enter the prison gates,” said Interim US lawyer for South Carolina Bryan Stirling said in the publication. “Smuggling smuggling such smuggling schemes are not only illegal, but also dangerous, and the sentences that are covered today reflect the seriousness of these crimes.”

This case was examined by the Bundesburo of prisons and the FBI . The deputy US lawyer Katherine Flynn pursued the case, which was shown by the US district judge Joseph Dawson, according to the publication.

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