April 4, 2025
Jeffery Jenkins and Richard Redding have been arrested after being caught with a drone carrying contraband
Atlanta cops intercepted a drone that was carrying contraband and purportedly heading to the Fulton County Jail, and arrested two males accused of getting the objects and the drone of their car.
In accordance with WSB-TV, suspects Jeffery Jenkins and Richard Redding have been arrested and charged with a wide range of crimes after the duo was stopped roughly a mile from the jail. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat said that investigators discovered a drone within the car April 1 as they have been supposedly en path to the county jail.
The contraband they have been accused of transporting ranged from medication to 9 cell phones to cigarettes. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s workplace, Natalie Ammons, mentioned a tip was obtained. A FAST (Fugitive Apprehension Assist Workforce) Unit investigator, Jermaine Moore, who was within the neighborhood when the tip was obtained, carried out a visitors cease the place he found a drone, a drone controller, and different objects within the automobile.
“Marijuana, cellular phone chargers, 9 cell telephones, oxycodone, varied capsules, twine, like 550 twine which is used to make the drops utilizing the drone, and the packaging supplies,” Moore mentioned.
Moore additionally said that 48 packages of cigarettes and over 100 free cigarettes and suspected oxycodone have been additionally discovered within the car.
The sheriff advised the media outlet that he believes greater than half the contraband that finds its approach into the jail arrives there through drone. He additionally talked about that cell telephones and tobacco are unlawful inside the Fulton County Jail.
Ammons additionally mentioned that investigators suspected that the identical drone operation might have taken place final weekend when a drop of McDonald’s Hen Sandwiches, suspected oxycodone, and extra was found caught in jail fencing.
“We’re combating know-how with know-how and good old school detective work. And so, as we proceed to research, we proceed be actually cognizant of the truth that it is a new pattern,” Labat mentioned.
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