Drones and Prisons: Recent Raspberry Pi Prisoner, Yeast, Drug, and Playing Card Delivery History

    Smuggling in prisons will continue as long as the prisons themselves function. People carry cigarettes and matches in the colon, hide drugs in clothes or food, and even try to get prisoners out of prison in a suitcase . Los Angeles Sheriff Henry Martin in 2010 tried to smuggle heroin inside a burritto . In August 2015, prison officers in Costa Rica caught a pigeon with heroin .

    The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons sees a threat in drones : cases of delivering packages with yeast, a Raspberry Pi microcomputer, drugs, playing cards and phones to prison territory using drones have already been in Russia, the UK, and the USA.

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    In a Kent prison, UK, in January 2009, they raised the alarm when they spotted a toy radio-controlled helicopter over the territory . Prison officials are convinced that the helicopter delivered drugs or mobile to prisoners. The option was not ruled out that it was someone else's joke.

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    In January 2011, in the Tula region, police seized seven hundred grams of heroin from five suspects who planned to deliver drugs to a remand prison with a radio-controlled helicopter. According to investigators, the drugs found would be enough for fourteen thousand doses.

    The helicopter had to hang at the camera window so that the prisoner would pick up the package. In addition to drugs, attackers wanted to deliver cell phones in this way. The police detained the criminal group and found out that one of the inmates of the pre-trial detention center controlled the process - he ordered to buy for contraband a radio-controlled helicopter worth ten thousand rubles and a carrying capacity of one hundred grams.

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    In Quebec, Canada, drones began repeatedly delivering goods to prisons in 2013. A small drone flew over the Hull prison in the city of Gatineau in November 2013 . The prison guards noticed him, but did not find a package that he could drop, nor the device itself.

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    Other smugglers in Calhoun County, Georgia, were less fortunate that same month that year. Police arrested four people who tried to smuggle almost a kilogram of tobacco and several mobile phones into the prison.

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    In June 2014, a drone crashed into the courtyard of Whitfield Prison, the largest in the Irish county of Dublin . The device touched the net, stretched over the yard. The prisoner managed to grab a package of drugs and swallow it, after which he went to solitary confinement to wait for the package to come out naturally.

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    In July 2014, DJI Phantom tried to smuggle two Nokia cell phones and accessories, including headphones and headsets, and a Raspberry Pi microcomputer into Khao Bin Prison in Thailand with a quadcopter .

    The quadcopter was equipped with a GoPro camera and a Wi-Fi amplifier so that it could be controlled from a long distance. The plan failed, because the device caught on a tree branch in the prison.

    According to Thai officials, phones in prison would cost millions of baht. One million Thai baht at the exchange rate for November 2015 - more than twenty eight thousand dollars.

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    In August 2014, a quadrocopter landed on the territory of the prison of the Greek city of Larisa . Sappers checked the device for a bomb, but found five mobile phones, charging cables for them, six SIM-cards and two pairs of headphones in a cardboard box glued with adhesive tape.

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    In March 2015, they tried in a Bedford prison in the UKtransport a package of drugs, a knife, a screwdriver and mobile phones. The DJI Phantom 2 Vision is stuck in a barbed wire. The police suggest that the pilot tried to fly to the window of the desired camera so that the prisoner tore the package from the drone.

    Adam Bailey of the Remote Manned Aircraft Association said this attempt to deliver the package to prison was idiotic. “The drone sounds like a swarm of bees and flashes light bulbs, so you will definitely attract attention. In order to deliver something to prison in such conditions, you must be an experienced pilot, which these guys were definitely not. ”

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    June 1, 2015, attackers tried to smugglein one of Puerto Rico’s prisons, two hundred and seventy-two packs of suboxon, thirty cigars, three packs of marijuana, a phone charger and three nails.

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    In July 2015, the quadrocopter tried to bring mobile phones to prisoners in penal colony No. 3 of Magadan. Employees of the institution noticed a quadcopter flying in the direction of the hostel for the convicts, which were controlled remotely, and tried to detain the violators with the help of dogs. The pilots disappeared, and the quadrocopter lost control and crashed. Two mobile devices with SIM cards were attached to the device with tape.

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    At the same time, in the Komi Republic, hospital staff for prisoners intercepted the Saf-Moment quadrocopter with yeast. In addition to yeast, there were six SIM cards on board, a bottle with a clear liquid and one hundred and one pink tablets, four cell phones, three chargers, three headsets and three decks of playing cards. The suspect was detained.

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    On July 29, in Mansfield, Ohio, a drone dropped a pack of heroin, marijuana, and tobacco into the prison . The parcel caused unrest in the prison, the guards had to use pepper spray to stop the fight between the prisoners.

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    In August 2015, with the help of a quadrocopter, well-wishers tried to ferryto a prison in Maryland, USA, a pistol with cartridges, DVDs with pornography, tobacco and many packages with narcotic substances. But the drone did not take off: the police caught the criminals while they were still in the car. In any case, their apparatus with a load capacity of two hundred and twenty grams could not bear all these things, because one gun weighs more.

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    On October 29, 2015, a broken quadrocopter DJI Phantom was found on the territory of a prison in Oklahoma . Among the cargo were two thirty-centimeter canvases for a hacksaw, a telephone, a headset, cigarettes, super glue and three packets of narcotic substances.



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    Some correctional facilities in Canada have already begun work on systems to prevent the smuggling of drones. This year, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prison sent a request for information about systems that allow you to monitor drones, identify and neutralize them, and made a number of requirements for such a system . Boeing has developed a laser cannon against drones.

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