New video of prison drone drugs drops

STASH Phone and drugs snap

BRAZEN thugs are now showing off the drugs they had flown into an Irish prison – via an expensive drone.

Last month this paper obtained shocking footage which showed a person controlling a drone that flew over Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison and dropped suspected drugs into the yard.

Now just two weeks later further clips have emerged of them once again controlling a drone via a tablet – and dropping another package into the prison yard.

Further footage has also emerged of the suspected drugs and illegal mobile phones that have then been smuggled inside the prison in Clondalkin.

In footage seen by this paper, someone shows off a series of tiny phones and several packages and blocks of suspected drugs.

CONCEALED

They also show off the drone device and tablet in full – revealing it is an Autel Robotics drone.

Varying types of the sophisticated device can be purchased online from between ¤1,300 to ¤9,000.

Following the previous video it emerged that the Irish Prison Service had contacted gardai over the incident which occurred on March 20.

An internal prison investigation has also been launched.

Sources previously described how the gangs responsible are going to desperate lengths to conceal the drugs and get them through a net over the yard of the prison.

A source said: “This is how these people are now trying to work around the nets by setting up this rather sophisticated method of placing weights in such a way that the bottle will fall straight through.”

In a statement the Irish Prison Service said: “The IPS has committed to continuing to invest in new technologies and measures to support our efforts to keep contraband out of prisons.”