Men and inmate use drones to deliver drugs in California prisons, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors have charged four men including one inmate with using drones to deliver drugs to several California prisons, according to a new...

April 16, 2023
7:04 AM

Federal prosecutors have charged four men including one inmate with using drones to deliver drugs to several California prisons, according to a news release on Thursday. An inmate at Salinas Valley Prison, Michael Ray Acosta, 48, and three others — Jose Enrique Oropeza, 34, of Colton, and two 34-year-old Sacramento men Rosendo Rene Ramirez and David Ramirez Jr. — were named in the indictment. The slew of charges include the intent to distribute marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine into prisons as well as for illegally flying the drones, the U.

THADDEUS MILLER