Two women from Texas have been arrested after allegedly using plastic crows to smuggle drugs, cell phones and tobacco into a federal prison located in Grant Parish. Grant Parish Sheriff Steven McCain says the suspects used a drone to drop the plastic crows filled with contraband onto the grounds of the Federal Prison.
“I will admit that it’s pretty creative. It didn’t work,” McCain said.
MELANIE JEAN WORTHINGTON (photo courtesy of Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office)
KASSY MARIE COLE (photo courtesy of Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office)
38-year-old Melanie Jean Worthington and 41-year-old Kassy Marie Cole have been arrested on multiple drug charges. McCain says they used plastic crows to get methamphetamine, THC, synthetic marijuana, tobacco and cell phones into the prison.
McCain says when authorities tracked down Worthington and Cole, they were in possession of the plastic crows that were dropped into the prison. The sheriff says ten people have been arrested this year for trying to smuggle drugs into the Federal Prison in Grant Parish. He says last year two men used a cannon to get meth and tobacco into the prison.
“It’s just amazing, the ideas they come up with. But there’s so much money involved that people are willing to continue to take the chance of not getting caught,” McCain said.
McCain says these two women admitted to being paid $40,000 to smuggle in the contraband.
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