Prison officers intercept drone delivering steak, crab legs with seasoning to inmates in contraband drop

A drone carrying a gourmet vacation haul of nutrient and contraband was intercepted astatine a South Carolina correctional installation aboriginal Sunday morning, according to authorities officials.

The bundle, which included steak, crab legs, marijuana and cigarettes, was confiscated astatine Lee Correctional Institution (LCI) successful Bishopville, according to situation officers.

The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) announced the seizure connected X, tagging the station with "#ContrabandChristmas."

"Seems immoderate folks were readying an aboriginal vacation Old Bay [Seasoning] crab boil and steak meal on with their marijuana and cigarettes — each dropped by a drone astatine Lee CI," SCDC wrote.

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Assorted contraband including crab legs, packaged earthy meat, tobacco, cigarettes, Old Bay seasoning and integrative wrapper are dispersed crossed a tile floor. (SCDC)

Photos released by the section amusement the unsocial haul included a earthy steak, plastic-wrapped crab legs, Old Bay Seasoning, a carton of Marlboro cigarettes, 2 ample bags of marijuana and a vacuum-sealed container of escaped tobacco.

Authorities told Fox News Digital that the drone was recovered on with the package. The incidental remains nether investigation, and nary arrests person been made.

"As you apt know, we often spot unusual items included successful contraband packages, but this was a spot unusual, adjacent for us," SCDC spokeswoman Chrysti Shain said. "I’m guessing the inmates who were expecting this bundle are a spot crabby."

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Two ample integrative bags filled with marijuana beryllium connected a woody table adjacent to a knife. (SCDC)

The SCDC and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office person spent years dealing with persistent drone drops astatine LCI.

"Contraband is simply a existent menace to prisons crossed the country, and we combat nightly attacks from drones dropping unsafe drugs (often fentanyl and meth) onto situation yards," Shain said. "We spell to bonzer lengths to combat drones."

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At slightest a twelve drones were confiscated successful 2022 astatine Lee Correctional Institution successful South Carolina. (SCDC)

In 2022, an eight-month probe astatine Lee Correctional led to 20 arrests and the seizure of 12 drones, arsenic good arsenic 100 pounds of contraband, authorities reported. 

Additionally, officers discovered 3 abandoned drones successful the woods adjacent the situation fences.

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Law enforcement reported that the drones progressive person grown larger and are susceptible of carrying heavier loads.

"These ample drones tin transportation heavier and heavier packages," Lee County Sheriff Daniel Simon said successful a 2022 statement. "We are moving hard to halt them from getting successful the incorrect hands."