I-Team: FOX 5 I-Team Tests Prison Drone Warning System
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- By: Randy Travis
Aired: May 22 2018
CAMILLA, Ga. - Imagine the skies over a state prison nearly as busy as Hartsfield-Jackson. Filled not with planes, but with low-flying drones.
Officials told the FOX 5 I-Team on just one day at Autry State Prison in south Georgia they spotted 10 drones flying overhead. It's a 21st Century way to deliver drugs and cell phones over the prison walls, sometimes directly into the hands of the inmate.
"It's unnerving," admitted Clay Nix, director the Georgia Department of Corrections Office of Professional Standards. "If the drone can fly to an exact location utilizing GPS, the inmates who are retrieving it could retrieve their contraband in a matter of moments."
Retrieve the contraband by reaching through a hole in the prison window and grabbing the dangling payload from the drone itself. Hard to believe, but investigators insist that's what has happened.
Nix said drone sightings hit an all-time high at Georgia state prisons -- 138 since last July. Drones reduce the need for a corrupt guard to carry in the contraband.
Of the 33 state prisons, Autry is by far the biggest drone target. Sixty-seven sightings since last July, including a white DJI Phantom III. That turned out to also be the first catch for Autry's experimental drone detection system manufactured by Dedrone, a company based in San Francisco.
According to the case file, the detection system alerted to the drone late on February third of this year, prompting correctional officers to rush outside to scan the skies. The drone quickly retreated, but wound up stuck high up in some nearby trees.
Once authorities got it down, they discovered it was carrying two cell phones, four bags of crystal meth and one bag of marijuana. Plus one helpful fingerprint.
Investigators said it belongs to Adrian Cornelius Beall. He might be familiar with Autry.
"He should," agreed Nix. "He's been there."
Beall served time at Autry for burglary, possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and other charges. He was released in December. He's now under arrest again.
Investigators also managed to download video from that seized drone, showing a juvenile who lives nearby testing out his flying abilities just four days before it would crash. His stepbrother also served time at Autry.
Authorities say that juvenile and his mother remain under investigation. Other arrests are expected.
"They can get anything in with a drone," agreed Autry state prison warden Walter Berry. "They just have to use their imagination."
The Department of Corrections is currently testing competing drone detection systems at Autry and nearby Calhoun state prison. They've spent no tax dollars yet. They first want to make sure it works.
So far, so good.
"We've been quite successful with the system at Autry State Prison in alerting that there's something or a drone in the area," explained Nix.
We offered to test it. The SkyFOX drone flew in from some nearby woods just south of the prison. Seconds later, an annoying alarm began ringing inside the prison control room.
Per protocol, the entire prison went into lockdown mode, all 1700 inmates sent to their cells as staffers rushed outside to search the skies for the intruder.
Unlike the system being tested at Calhoun, Autry's system can not pinpoint the location of the person flying the drone. But the warden said just knowing it's up there gives them a fighting chance.
"Sometimes we can actually deter the drone from coming in because once they see that everybody's locked down and everybody's looking the drone may actually take off and go back out to the wooded area."
With the inmates secured, officers search the grounds for contraband, including the roof of every building. They also do a head-count, just in case the drone attack is just a diversion for a well-planned escape.
The alarm doesn't stop until the drone leaves prison airspace. Warden Berry gets the alerts sent directly to his cell phone. They average at least one a week, often in the middle of the night.
He said he'd love to see a system installed permanently. His grade for this test: A-plus
"It's very vital to mission," Berry insisted.
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That seems like too much work. When I was in GA Prisons you would literally just ask a guard and they always did.
Imagine a drop dropping a care package of Kevlar and assault rifles
So wait....I can lock down a prison almost anytime I want? Wow.
I thought they were going to shoot it down. If someone flew the drone high enough, I doubt their system would be able to detect it.
Detect these nutts
@@brandonfromkc2815 Gottttteeeeemmmm
Man, Randy Travis sure has changed since his music days.
What was the payment?
What if my drone cant go 3 miles up i can drop it from there and fly away befire it bits the ground
It's still way easier to corrupt a human guard by greed or fear, they will do it. Imagine every day getting something easily inside that will grow your power and keep you in control and in business.
This gave me a good chuckle I must confess
Raise your hands fox, warden, dep warden of security. If YOU think that most of these phones and drugs are not coming in by your guards. Anyone?
I would be the one to create a huge net and connect them to the high parts of buildings surrounding the prison. Anything that falls will fall on the net. It probably doesn’t make sense reading this but I can see the vision
Luckily weed is light. Drop it from 3000 feet.
3000 feet? Bro bro alot of drones legally can't push more than 400 ft
You need a lot of money to fly that high
Yep
Did he call it a drome?
question ..how close do you have to be before you set off the alarms .....
bedspread 25 feet
Wrong
Dedrone detects over a mile away
😂🤣
Asking for a friend?
Not a single video taken by the prison of an illegal drone delivery to share?
Bro how unlucky it got stuck on the tree and get caught.
dumb pilot not unlucky
The whole prison layout is for a 1930s prisoner mindset. If they don't reinvigorate the whole prisons this next generation of criminals are way way smarter than the 1930s criminal the prison was intended for. They need to do some major upgrading to the whole prison system before somebody really gets hurt. I wonder how many drug overdoses and deaths are related to these drones delivering drugs into the prison system?
138 since last july
1 minute later :
67 sightings since last july
138 for the entire state
67 for that particular prison
Hope life is treating you well
You got a lucky name there bud "Randy Travis"
The prison systems should design their drone that drops a net over the incoming drone.
😂😂😂 the drone got stuck, ashame to see all that weed go to waste
It's called 7.5 birdshot! Track it, shoot it.
What if they drop in guns?
A gun is HELLA heavy and would probably mess up the drone’s center of gravity. That’s my guess.
@@stevienguyen2047 unless that gun is like a kolibri, it definitely would mess up its center of gravity.
To much weight
Its not though@@gdcodurham.
Surprised no guns were dropped
Fox just took all those prisoners 1hr free space time 😂 violations of prisoner rights
why dont they just put some net over the prisons?
Is anyone thinking what I’m thinking if they were really smart 😂😂 or just wanted to be annoying 😂😂
See a drone over the jail? Shoot it down. Seems simple enough...
They are remote control....signal blockers
Fully automatic pellet guns lol 😂
under arrest for poor piloting
Wicked
A collect call is to high in there
That my brother
I think they should have phones. That would cut down on a lot of the homosexuality.
DC R without wifi or data it will be uselessness
@@javidmirza4584 My brothers doing 25 YRS I know what I'm talking about dude alot of them have phones, what makes you think they're paying the bill? 😒
Most Ga prisons have tablets that they can use
@@nick1512 To jack off with? I doubt that.
Or just stay out of prison?
Radar jamming duh... 🙄🙄
Drone's lives matter 🆗🤠☘️🥊🥊🇮🇪💯
I seen mfs runnin for the pack akd get tackled lol
Just drop some guns and grenades
Standtidge
here's an idea: get a CIWS on a trailer and position like 5 or 10 around the prison's perimeter, code it to where it will only shoot at small aircraft (drones), and thats it.
Is this a joke?
They just need a 3 axis servers with directnal antenna thacan shoot a signal jammer at them.
3:29 beautiful
Yea i had that same dell desktop in high-school
you down bad
Don't allow them outside period
It's the law to give them 1 hour of Recreational activities a day. Just like it's the law when you work for any employer for the duration of 8 hours they have to give you a lunch break and a minimum of two 10-minute breaks. You do realize these people will be out of there one day right?
@@DC_R who cares about them
@@tomee4453 I do. And I'm sure the people who go to visit them would say the same thing. News Flash: it doesn't take much to get incarcerated dude Wake up
You could let them out for 1 hour at night :)
Cruel and unusual punishment. Humans need sunlight to stay healthy
Thwy get busy in ohio istg
That is so funny 🤣
Yall talk garbage about mexico but can't clean America 💯🔥🤣
Get Trump to build a wall...
U6
Mabye window la u can’t just make large enough holes to stick ur arm and a bunch of stuff 😂 waste of tax dollars anything else
So much money for police and state sponsored slavery 😂