Drones are neutral – they can be used for good as in Amazon’s case, or it could function as a vehicle of choice when it comes to smuggling contraband material, and the latter has certainly seen its fair share of cases in the past, and now we come face to face with news of a man facing up to 51 years of jail time because he has been convicted of using a drone to smuggle contraband into Maryland’s Western Correctional Institution.
The kind of contraband that 25-year old Thaddeus Shortz attempted to smuggle included drugs, pornography, tobacco and a cellphone – and to think that he made the attempt by targeting a maximum-security prison, which is certainly close to the impossible level on the challenge scale. Shortz was caught by police while he was outside the prison in his pickup truck, and the authorities hauled up $35,000 worth of contraband along the way.
We suppose that this daring attempt could also be attributed to the fact that Shortz was somewhat familiar with the prison’s layout, having served time for assault there before. Shortz will be sentenced later this month with a possible maximum sentence of 51 years, and this is not a lone wolf operation as Shortz’s co-defendant is still awaiting trial.