Most everyone knows that drugs are quite often present inside a prison. What most people don’t know is how those drugs got in there? One way, apparently, is by using a drone.
We know this because, according to court documents, a man named James Key III of Eustis, Florida allegedly used a drone to deliver fentanyl and contraband cellphones into Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities in California, Florida, and South Carolina. An indictment filed last week claims that the 45-year-old Key performed this drone drug delivery service between Dec. 16, 2024, and Aug. 17, 2025.
An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Prisons Special Investigative Services alleges Key conspired with Federal Bureau of Prisons inmates to apply fentanyl onto paper, bundling that paper, wrapping it in synthetic grass, and then delivering it by drone into the prisons…