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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Drone flies pair of bolt cutters to jail as part of escape plot
2016-03-20
[MIRROR.CO.UK] Prisoners tried to escape from a jail by flying in a pair of bolt cutters on board a drone.
Maybe they should fly a few sets into the Trump rally?
The aircraft’s remote operator unloaded the tools near the prison’s perimeter fence.

But the bizarre escape plot failed when guards alerted cops - who seized the kit before it could be hauled in by lags at HMP Featherstone , Staffs.

The drone also contained banned mobile phones and a consignment of drugs, said to include the deadly super-strength legal high Spice.

A police probe into the smuggling bid was underway last night.

A source said: “It was only by luck that a staff member saw the drone and witnessed it dump its load outside the fence.

“The theory is the operator made a mistake and the parcel should have been unloaded inside the jail.”
Posted by:Fred

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