Eleven people have been charged in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that federal prosecutors say was directed from inside a Tennessee prison using contraband cell phones.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee, a federal grand jury returned a 17-count superseding indictment charging the defendants with participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine throughout southern Middle Tennessee.
Prosecutors allege that Corey Byrd, 38, who is currently serving a sentence with the Tennessee Department of Correction, used smuggled cell phones to coordinate drug trafficking operations through a network of associates outside prison walls…