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COALINGA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 48-year-old inmate astatine Pleasant Valley State Prison successful Coalinga was sentenced Monday for smuggling contraband into the situation aft coordinating aggregate drone deliveries, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The DOJ says Michael Ray Acosta was sentenced to 5 years successful situation for conspiring to administer and person with intent to administer methamphetamine, heroin, and marijuana wrong the prison.
According to tribunal documents, from May 23 to Aug. 27, 2021, Acosta utilized a contraband cellphone to coordinate aggregate drone deliveries of contraband into the prison.
The DOJ says Joshua Gonzalez, Jose Oropeza, Rosendo Ramirez, and David Ramirez Jr. flew drones implicit the prisons and dropped the packages into the prison.
Acosta and others would past retrieve the contraband that included methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana, cellphones, cellphone accessories and assorted different items and smuggle them into the prison, according to the DOJ.
Acosta was 1 of 5 radical charged federally arsenic a effect of “Operation Night Drop”, a multi-agency probe that sought to forestall a rising fig of drone incursions implicit situation facilities.
Jose Oropeza is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected July 28, 2025, and David Ramirez is scheduled to plead blameworthy connected the aforesaid day. Joshua Gonzalez and Rosendo Ramirez are adjacent scheduled to look successful tribunal connected June 11, 2025.
