The second incident took place across the Atlantic near the UK’s Erlestoke Prison in southern England, where cops staged an arrest of three people in the wee hours of September 1. Read: Report on contraband drone drops to a Canadian prison offers peek into wider global scourge Though authorities last year promised $6 million in preventive tech, reports indicate those assets have only been installed in a single Quebec penitentiary – which is still testing the solution to boot. Though one of Canada’s hottest jails in terms of UAV drops, Collins Bay is just one of the scores of the country’s prisons and detention centers battling the rising traffic of drone delivered contraband. According to official figures compiled by the Canadian Broadcasting Company, the prison was the scene of 99 attempted or successful UAV deliveries last year alone.
The two were booked on various charges – including attempted distribution of contraband to a correctional facility – but not before they helped inch up the drone stats at Collins Bay. Police alerted to the flight apprehended the two suspects in possession of what was described as a large payload of tobacco, marijuana, and hashish. The first recent case of that illegal activity arose in Canada in late August, with a pair of would-be contraband delivery pilots caught as they sought to fly a drone over the Collins Bay Institution prison in Ontario. Read more: Illicit drone delivery of contraband to global prisons soared in 2022 Indeed, the illegal ferrying of contraband has expanded to become a constant plague for correctional authorities – fueling the growth of booming black market jail economies, and sparking periodic explosions of violence between competing inmate operators. As DroneDJ has reported in the past, use of drones to deliver prohibited items including drugs, tobacco, and smartphones into prisons has been on the rise around the world in recent years.
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