A pair of Colorado males received inventive in Louisiana, utilizing an air compressed cannon in a failed bid to launch medicine and tobacco onto the grounds of a federal jail.
Jose Francisco Herrera Munoz, 18, and Angel Gonzales Gutierrez, 19, tried utilizing the air cannon to fireside $112,000 value of tobacco and $89,500 in methamphetamine over a fence and into the Federal Correctional Advanced in Pollock.
The cannon they had been caught with, much like these used to ship T-shirts into crowds in huge arenas, can propel objects greater than 350 ft.
The Grant Parish Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned deputies realized of the plans for the caper in an investigation, WBAZ reported.
Each suspects had been arrested for trying to introduce contraband right into a penal establishment and trying to distribute methamphetamine.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement additionally took half within the probe. Munoz, who got here to the U.S. illegally, was detained by the company, and now faces deportation.
