Drone repair shop owner arrested, accused of helping gangs smuggle contraband into prisons
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2024
- Agents have uncovered what they believe to be the largest criminal operation of its kind in Georgia history that kept ecstasy, meth, guns, cell phones and more out of Georgia prisons.
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Prison guards don't like competition.
Yeah buddy agreed 🎉
There are always corrections officers that are corrupt but I’m sure the majority don’t want to worry about what can be flown into the yard only to end up hurting them.
No doubt!!😂
😂 Truth 😂
They dont get paid enough
Nike now requiring background checks to verify their shoes are not sold to bank robbers.
hahaha
A dronl that size could never lift a human being a hole
@@jaycreaseythere's actually video of a father picking his son up and over a fence with one of the agricultural drones
and another one of a hunter flying a deer out of the woods with one
@@jaycreaseywho said anything about carrying people?
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I like how he plugged his shop for free advertising.
Naaaah
How much money can there be in drone repair?
Of course he had to get additional income.
You saw too huh?😂
If you have a DJI drone you'd be screwing yourself to hand it over to some schmuck like this guy. DJI has a whole certified program for drone repairs and refurbishing. Repairs are resonable. More than likely this guy would just send it to DJI and add some cost to make a buck in the process because IT'S A FRONT.
@@melted_cheetah I don't have a drone, good to know anyways thanks.
No way people are that slow this is caveman with technology
Next up, go after the ATF and the FBI for arming inner city gangs
💯% FACTS‼️
And the CIA for when they flooded LA with crack for a decade in order to launder money to buy arms for Nicaraguan rebels.
Tell me about it. Grew up in the projects back in the 90s in los angeles. A white guy would pull up in a van and you had 16 years purchasing ak47
@@felipenunez2058white guy like Swartz?
*CIA
As if you need a drone to get drugs in GA prisons, LOL.
Surely it's how you get quantity though.
What about weapons? Lol
The fact that "you don't need a drone" doesn't preclude the use of drones, LOL.
@@jayrowe6473 exactly, some can’t think outside the box.
@@enjoyesk8978I’m sure anything that paid enough, probably 5.000 for a cheap 9mm
146 people arrested on 1 single RICO case & a drone shop repair owner arrested?? Uhhhhhh interesting....
That’s 146 lawyers with new business.
How??? AOC clearly stated that RICO isn't a crime.
@@robertsontirado4478right. They're the big winners. Them and the prisons
RICO is designed for large numbers of defendants. Just ask trump.
🤡 🌍🫡
this is a stupid waste of money----- they just fix drones while the prison guards smuggle in way more than you think .
😂
Watch the Thunder Drone guy be innocent and the government ruin his life over nothing. It happens all the time.
There's actually no way to tell at this stage. It's pretty bad that cops dragged him out and paraded him for the press though. That's the government forcing someone to submit to the needs of a private news organisation.
It could also be that one of his employees and/or customers were smuggling and he got caught up in it.
@@arthurneddysmith they have recorded phone calls between the shop owner and inmates. He didn't pack the drugs however he flew the drones over the gates.
That's what I said,they the ones guilty,the cops all of them
Did anyone here actually watch the video? The cops explained how they caught the people. Wire tapping, they listened in on the criminals conversations. They don’t execute a raid like this without evidence
@@arthurneddysmith He could have easily said no comment and that news organization would have a lot less content for their story
So, has anyone in the gangs arrested and charged? But the guy that has a business selling and repairing drones gets arrested. Do they arrest car dealership owners when cars are used in robberies or drug deals? WTF?
I asume they had a warrant for which they had evidence. We'll see.
😅😅😅😅 youre cracking me up…ignorance is funny
because the gangs are already in prison genius…
If the car dealer is communicating with the bank robber before the robberies about the future crime, then yes the car dealer would be engaged in a conspiracy.
RICO casts a wide net in hopes of turning them as witnesses and ends up pleading out the vast majority.
thats like arresting a auto repair shop owner. because they replace a thermostat on a car that some one used to commit a crime.. “abuse of authority”
Shh don't give them any ideas.
Lmao the wore taps says otherwise
I'd bet all charges against the shop personal get dropped due to lack of evidence as they probably only have phone records linking the smugglers to the shop and zero direct involvement. This was 100% for the nationwide news bite and to make it look like they are doing something about they terrible prison conditions but in reality 99% of the contraband is smuggled in with staff knowledge or by staff directly...
Truly I can not believe the media anymore.
The media? Yea they're bad, but how bout all these corrupt police and politicians
Did you before?
Next up: hammer repair man charged with murder when hammer is used in violent crime.
*RIGHT! Stop blaming everyone else except the criminal! Democrats suck.*
Exactly if this drone operator repair shop is found guilty that means every auto dealer and auto mechanic shop in auto manufacturer in the country is guilty of people running drugs from state to state in cars
@@jamesbroomfield7799 that’s assuming he was unaware and uninvolved. Given the fact, they said they had evidence that he was in contact with multiple prisoners. It seems like that’s not the case. Also someone who’s not guilty of something like that doesn’t behave the way he did.
Cut it out with the hysteria@@jamesbroomfield7799
Every time anything happens we have goofballs like you, pulling ridiculous conclusions out of thin air. 😂
Hahaha 😆
Next, computer repairman goes to jail for repairing a laptop used by important person.
BIDENS DOJ is working on it.
Only if he tells you he has evidence of his crimes and needs you to help him cover them up. And you charge him 500% more than the going rate and send emails back and forth with him documenting your crimes. Then yea...you might get arrested.
For sure
Or if you notify orange man about the activities of his rival's son.
@@delanorrosey4730
There you go, got it wrong again..not the Orange!!..is the patoto…& descendants..
@1:08 He is supposed to say, "Allegedly in communication...."
This cop has declared the man guilty in the town square, even before his court date.
Pretty sure that's illegal.
Georgia law enforcement not looking good lately
All law enforcement not looking good after the most recent A.I. audit from foreign intelligence.
They didn't warn them young bucks at the academy that becoming a cop would make you a target too foreign intellegence, espionage and spies.
@@WookofWallstreet only as good as paramaters selected and accuracy of information input
@@WN_Byers lol wayy too advanced for me. I just have an idea what technology and manipulation tactics is being used on American soil.
Wonder why phone companies aren't held liable
She should be arrested for wearing those Crocs
He must have some really nice drones! I'm going to check out his website.
And just think EVERY person he has done business for in his files or connections will probably be on a WATCH LIST, imagine that....this is why "going global" and getting all the electronic CONNECTIONS opens EVERYBODY up for these DRAGNET exercises.
Flawed humans watching over flawed humans. What could go wrong.
They did a study on this... it was shut down for torture.
I just wanna know who’s doing Xtacy in prison. How freaky are they getting in there ?
@IINVICTA freakier than the nightclubs
You sound like an alien from another planet describing a foreign species.
@@IINVICTAIt was probably fentanyl pressed with the same pill presses as the x pills, but I guess it's possible. X doesn't make you horny either, at least not me. It's a stimulant and it makes you thingy shrink and not get hard like all other stimulants. Now opioids, you can fck all night on those.
Prison guards dont like competition
If land lords and motel owners aren’t liable for secs workers that patronize their facilities why is this legitimate business owner being terrorized
Sounds to me like this guy is going to jail for repairing and selling drones. I hope they can prove he knew he was repairing for criminal activity. This is why I don’t watch mainstream news anymore 😮
LOL. You do know most news shows on broadcast news are thirty minutes so the news segments are only a minute or two long so you tell me how much detail you can get into in a minute or two.
What does that have to do with mainstream media? They arrested the guy. They even got explanations of the evidence they have on him. What exactly is your problem?
I bet you tell yourself that you're the smartest person you know, too. They literally explained that they infiltrated communications between him and criminals inside and outside the jail, as well as other evidence connecting him to the crimes. Couldn't even pay attention during a 3 minute video, could ya? Or are you so smart that you just treat media like reading a picture book?
@@Jordan-rb28😂
Oh please…they got him dead to rights…they surveilled everything….he is completely cooked…25 years coming soon…
How does a drone shop investigate customers?
You can't, that's by design, but is is easier to arrest a business owner than go after the well connected criminal prison guards who organize stuff.
So what if his customers are all felons. Does this mean every liquor store owner in the hood will be arrested?
Dui's?.. Save the nation😂
Tell the liquor store not to sell alcohol anymore
@@mariarod6998
That’s next!…
If you're smuggling drugs in exchange for instant coffee and tuna pouches, then the kingpin must be a barista with 100 cats
Bro said the drone could lift a human being. 💀
The agricultural models definitely can.
@@jaxturner7288They definitely cannot. Agricultural drones literally have a weight limit of 55 lb. Why make ignorant claims when you have no idea what you're talking about? I really want this question answered, I'm very interested to know why people do this.
@@jaxturner7288 How about you drop in a couple sheep.
Sure would like to rent one in North Central Florida to spray weeds & brush I can't get to@@jaxturner7288
@@mattsch21 He said "a human being"; he didn't say "a full-sized, adult human."
Some guys in prison having phones and food isn't going to hurt anybody. In terms of how much this helped the public the answer is zero.
something about this doesnt seem right...
That's great !
Now the prison guards don't have to bring them in anymore 😂
😂
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They better not use this to deny right to repair.
They will
Underground below the radar Shops doing repairs now
Believe that 💯 pilgrims!!!
@@ElberGonzozo-jg5er they won't doomer
This is there intent. This arrest is probably to pressure him into giving up his customer records
Luis Rossmann fan? Me too!
I’m sure that 60 year old Secretary at the drone repair shop is the gang leader/ mastermind of the whole operation 😂 good work Holmes.😂
Yep, poor business owner just doing business for whomever would pay him
Here in Bronx, New York a sixty one year old man was raided by the F.B.I. for having three million dollars in cash and tons of cocaine in his apartment. Lots of senior citizens work as drug mules..
is that sarcasm? can’t tell. think 100% she knows all.
older = more successful in not getting caught or worse
Eddie - "holmes" or homes; maybe i have been wrong my entire life? ward was very strict and very hard on the beaver...
Newport cigs sales are also at a all time high in Georgia !
Can you get arrested for cleaning a drug dealer’s yard?😂
IRS can get you for not paying taxes.
Aid .Comfort Schits..
What's wrong with criminals consuming poisons like fentanyl?
It's cheaper than long term interment. It's a win win situation.
Aiding and abetting
They sure will try everyone is guilty before you prove your innocent
So they are saying nobody knew this was going on in the prison bull crap.!!!!
They knew, they just had to find out where it was coming from. Build a case against the guys working there, guys on the outside, and get a Judge to OK a raid. Looking at six months right there.
The agents walking slow because this guy running his mouth is evidence.
You so right😂
@1:27 "We did electronic interceptions".
Who called the media to the arrest?
How about getting the squatters out of peoples homes next please?
The reason no one gets evicted for a nickel or a penny is that you've already paid double over the life of the loan
If you have a $500,000 mortgage, your property is only worth $250,000
Car buyers prefer a balloon payment over an up-front dealer markup because they think they're getting a better deal
Under this logic, must arrest computer repairman for tax evasion for Hunter Biden's laptop.
They offered gramps an offer he couldn't refuse...$$$$
Up next: Walmart CEO arrested for allowing people to steal his own goods!
😂 so true!
Did they find any contraband in his home or office? Doesn’t sound like it. Did he participate in the dropping operations? Doesn’t sound like it. I hop he has a good lawyer.
Ugh.. GA law enforcement doesn’t exactly exude intelligence integrity .
Why is the reporter yelling?? Maybe he doesn't know how microphones work?
At least he's speaking English.
It's been his MO for MANY YEARS, adds to the effect !
😂😂😂😂😂😂 smh
I was kinda wondering if he had Tourettes for a second.
He likes the attention.
Prisons dont like it when you make money behind thier backs....😂
Georgia passing out RICO like candy.
I wonder how exactly and the level of the drone repair operator’s involvement. Was he was intentionally doing it or was he unknowingly made an accomplice?
A lot of questions are going to need to be answered.
Usual Suspect. Handcuffed but still doing a commercial 🤣🤣🤣🤣
According to AOC Rico is not a crime, so there smarty pants.
RICO isn't a crime it's crime classification and enhancement. You have to have actual criminal charges that can be enhanced into a RICO case.
Does that clear it up for you?
I think this drone repair shop employees did not know what they were getting themselves into. Honestly they look pretty innocent? That lady does not look like a criminal lol
Yeah, drone repair seems like a very marginable business. Suddenly you start making lots of sales and you can afford to live. Does the tire shot ask why the guy with the souped up car is buying high speed tires? Does the ski shop ask why the guy is buying 4 ski masks? Now they did say they have electronic communication, so if that communication states that they knew what they were being used for....that's different.
@@frotobaggins7169 I agree with what you were saying, just because he's repairing gang members drones doesn't mean he necessarily knew what they were doing with them? the employee looks like she had no idea what's going on, she was probably just preparing drones not knowing what they were used for?
As someone that's been incarcerated, I can tell ya, if he was involved in something like that, he very likely DIDN'T have a choice. If you know someone in prison, NEVER VISIT THEM!! The way those gangs work, they follow your loved ones, then put pressure on them, often by threatening the lives of their incarcerated loved ones.
Cant do nothing about the rampant violent crime.. but at least you got the drone guy..
So I guess business owners need to do background checks on all their customers? 🙄
Hardware stores ask for your driver's license just to purchase a box cutter.
@@deezy81I have never been asked for ID buying a box cutter. In what state is this happening?
@@kellyroyds5040 Bronx, New York.
That's gonna be great for business!
Apparently the warden and his staff don't appreciate the competition! 😂
The guy that is arrested is a whole mood 😂😂😂
Those co’s weren’t having it being cut out 😂
" If the allegations prove to be true" So is the owner guilty or did you just include him in your dragnet.
You don't know who you are repairing them for? 🤔 Why of course I do they are paying customers that need thier drones repaired and I happen to have a drone repair shop🤷
How cannot the prison guards not see or hear a drone even at nite!
Height
Under side is black, sky is black. Drone is flown very high.
That's how...
The entire Georgia justice system seems...odd!
So, if I work on a drug dealer's home as a remodeling contractor, I can be arrested on RICO charges? Basically what the government is saying is, if you own a business you MUST run a background check on all of your potential clients!
It really shouldn’t be that hard to keep contraband out of prisons. Always reactive never proactive.
This is rediculous. The old man repairs drones what right does he have to know what or where these drones are used!???
Yea, although this report didn't say if he was selling directly to inmates at that prison or friends of the inmates. If it's friends of inmates I'm sure they wouldn't say to him how they are going to use the drones and drop drugs/ phones into prison yard, maybe.Correction, the investigation said he was communication with inmates, so illegal probably.
@@sammyhooligan803 agreed he could very well have been doing business he should not have done. I don't know.
@@marcanderson1073 yea. The investigator or officer said he was, after investigation which led to his arrest. So, he knew, sold, or collaboration with someone who knows or was inmates.
If the repair shop hacked the drone software to bypass geofencing, then they are going to prison.
There going to prison anyway. You can't do that 😅
No GEO fencing on these custom drones.
H E Y .0..
@@mustangjames1988 Obviously not.
@@theamerican7080 Ya, but what I'm saying is there was nothing to hack in the first place.
1:40 you better call Tyrone. Call him.🗣️😂😂
"But you cain't use my phone."
Something is very wrong in the state of Georgia. 🤔
Yeah, the guards "said" that they didnt know when or how the drones were arriving😂😂 Suuure
Where is the video showing all of the gangsters being arrested as well who were providing the drugs being carried by the drones?
Gangsters are harder to find and these idiot is just inside his office😂😂
you know this is a frame job for the guy to repair a mules drone and framed him to cover for corrections officers bringing the contraband in. Think about it if the 170 drone seizures happened do you think the guy would have gotten word through his criminal connection that stuffs gone down we need to stop. And if it was real and police intercepted drones why didnt they watch for them all. Anyone including professional journalist should be able to listen to this story and put two together🤷
Why do you think correction officers performed raid you can hear in each ones voice how nervous they sound hoping they dont go down for it
Anything to protect the pale huh??? 😂😂
GA is a vile/ evile joke.
Drone repair business must've been slow and boring 😂
my instincts tell me that dude is innocent.. lets see what the investigation turns up
My instincts tell me this is an obvious front. C'mon, a "Drone Repair Shop"?
Actually I think from talking to people I know that did prison time contraband keep the prisoners calm less likely to cause trouble when they have their drugs and other stuff
😂
The guards had to be in on it.
8 correctional officers were arrested
First they came for the drone repairmen, and I said nothing.
Next, they came for the mechanics...
Clam UP!!!
I have 2 questions.Wasn't a no male prison and if it was the second question is why do a bunch of male prisoners want ecstasy bills
How did they prove the drone repairman knew about the criminal use?? I dont think they did yet
Homeboy sounded great until... " This iS a Agriculture drone, it can lift a human" yea i know thats false...
Agricultural drones are made to carry sprayers and stuff. I looked it up and first one i found carried 18 gallons or 110lbs
He was looking at too much of THE MAYOR 🤣🤣🤣...this is how it goes down when u stop paying your overhead
Good grief, this is been going on for years! 🤦🏻♀️
this happens all over the country in every state, they have known this for years.
Shutting down a legitimate repair shop so drone owners have no choice but send their drones back to the manufacturer for repair.
Increase the cost to include shipping costs. Way to go on taking away savings from people and other legitimate businesses.
Drones should be outlawed in civilian hands.
@@GunnyO326 🤣😉😙
I worked 15 yr for DOC. We have access to dogs that can detect drugs and electrical devices but aren't used. There are detectors and frequency scramblers that can see drones 1/4 of a mile away. "The love of money".
This has been happening in prisons around the world for years even way before drones. A helicopter landed in prison and took an inmate away a few years ago.
Before drone they just used tennis balls thrown over the walls to the yards.
Nope first time ever
This is just lazy police work. You can’t find and arrest any other gang members so you go after the business in the area that the gang members shop at. This is like arrestingthe CEO of Budweiser when there’s been a DUI by some other person.
He was in direct communication with prisoners inside.... same as a bartender with the dui person before they left the bar. Now, ask me about a bartenders liability.
"so you go after the business in the area that the gang members shop at" Exactly what you do, and you even mentioned the reasoning "gang members shop at". Really not understanding the confusion here. The shop was the common denominator for multiple gang members. Why wouldn't you go after the shop?
Not even. Its mote like arresting the janitors at budwiser
China is the maker of DJI drones, go arrest and sue them kinda like suing gun manufacturers.
Rico 146 people arrested. Rico: rkelly , one person arrested 😮. Make that make sense.
This man is a repair man. The fed’s are out of control!🤮
They’ve been out of control tho for years now
He was in communication with gang members, probably taught them how to fly lol
You're the reason it went on so long and fell for it. "But but but he's just a repair man. Ain't doing nothing wrong"
That gang coin hit different 😂😂😂😂
Arrested the prisoner guards who help get the Contraband into the prison.
Don’t arrest the gang members, arrest the drone repair guy? Really? Stupid.
They need to show me evidence that this man is guilty.
Yeah me too. It’s like arresting a mechanic for fixing a car used in a bank robbery getaway.
They investigated him for 2 years before his arrest. He’s guilty.
No. They need to show the judge and I doubt you are the judge.
So why are you here, are you the judge?@@kagreen2k
Dude is Keyser Soze with his acting skills if he really was in on the Contraband Drops cuz he came off to me like he had no clue what was going on.
And hate to be mean...but a touch Autistic with the way he spoke.
Nah, this doesn’t make sense unless dude had knowledge and an agreement where he was paid extra to make sure the drones were specially made to thwart police detection for mule reasons. If all he knew was that the drones needed repairs and nothing about what they’re being used for, there’s nothing to get him on.
I’d sure hate to be an owner of one of those drones seized. No more flying until the case is over.
This bust feels like a huge stretch to "connect the dots" and make themselves look like heroes. But if the store owner knew he was supporting illegal activity, then shame shame.
Big money 💰
Thwart police detection??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 please tell me about your extensive drone "knowledge"? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@murrijuana2842 what are you blathering about?
I am not surprised. I have seen drone drops in FCI Loretto, PA (2015) and FCI Fort Dix, East Side, NJ (2017).
Idk I could be bad a reading people but I just can't see the owner of the shop actively participating in the crimes. He may have sold the drones and he may even had suspicion but I don't think he's operating them.
While there is likely some truth to this, how many can see this news is Hollwood quality? Those drones likely bring in a fraction of what guards do.
Insanity doing the same things over and over expecting different results Rico case
Same as saying gunsmiths help criminals.
Total fail, shouldn't you be hunting a witch?
Extremely interesting and informative!
A "Drone Repair Shop" doesn't sound like a front or anything. Must have been the first clue.
Ignorant comment. What else ya got???
Maybe if you paid guards more they wouldn't be helping bring in the contraband. Contraband will always be epidemic til pay goes up. 😂 smh
Thats hilarious. . I just told also😂
'George' Estevez is a prime example of code switching
With guard’s over looking the prison how in the hell did they get away with it ⁉️
Damn!!
Yes.
Thank you.
Excellent.
If this is a raid how did the media know about it, get to both locations and get such, up close, intimate contact with the those involved and the arrestees?! This is a crime scene yet they have their cameras right there to take images. They claim that the drone repair shop was involved due to communications with inmates and their "associates" could that mean he knows someone at the prison (family member?) and he is in touch with "associates" because they get their drones repaired there. I need more information as to how they made this connection before I condemn the business owner.
Ok, here's what I'm trying to understand, a business owner who sells and repairs drones is being arrested for being suspected of gang involvement? WTF? Is he directly involved or what? Something just doesn't add up here.b
He essentially modded, hacked or “jail broke” drones so the gangs could operate/ fly drones inside restricted/ geo fenced off no fly areas, like prisons and airports.
Not sure if the act of doing the mods by itself is legal or not but helping anyone commit any kind of felony on government property Always is.
Just conspiring to do such things will get you time. 👍
Dude apparently you didn't hear there was a two year investigation...So you will not hear all of that evidence in this brief news story..
@@jaxturner7288hard to believe he is that dumb if he can repair drones
@jaxturner7288 sure if you know. Modding your property isn't illegal even if that property is a drone. Even modding the software for "unsavory" characters isn't illegal. It's only possibly illegal of the cops have communication of people asking him to disable geofencing for the express purpose of dropping stuff in prison.
If they just said "we want all factory restrictions removed", he shouldn't have been arrested.
@@jaxturner7288.
And no videos of these drones dropping these guns off ?, 😅