LOUISIANA – The Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office announced that two Texas women flew cocaine and telephones into a federal prison in central Louisiana using a drone and plastic bird decoys, leading to their capture. Investigators were informed by the suspects that they were paid $40,000 to carry out the smuggling operation. The women were identified by deputies as Kassy Marie Cole, 41, of Hurst, and Melanie Jean Worthington, 38, of Joshua.<\/p>\n
Worthington is accused of possessing marijuana and methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, as well as bringing contraband into a correctional facility.<\/p>\n
Cole was accused of possessing synthetic marijuana and methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, as well as bringing contraband into a correctional facility. Cole had an outstanding warrant at the time of her arrest, according to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LOUISIANA – The Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office announced that two Texas women flew cocaine and telephones into a federal prison in central Louisiana using a drone and plastic bird decoys, leading to their capture. Investigators were informed by the suspects that they were paid $40,000 to carry out the smuggling operation. The women were identified … Continue reading Texas women used drone to fly drugs into Louisiana prison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news-archive"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 03:17:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1486845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487484,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486845\/revisions\/1487484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1486845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1486845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1486845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}