BLUEFIELD, WV (LOOTPRESS) – An Illinois man has been sentenced for his role in a scheme to use a drone to smuggle contraband into the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) McDowell.
Miguel Angel Aleman-Piceno, 23, of Chicago, was sentenced Monday to three years of federal probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit the felony crime of attempting to introduce contraband into a federal prison.
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Court documents show that on February 1, 2024, Aleman-Piceno and co-defendant Francisco Alejandro Gonzalez carried a drone and two camouflaged packages containing cell phones, chargers, phone cards, marijuana, and tobacco to the fence surrounding the prison.
Authorities said the men intended to fly the packages into the facility when they were stopped by law enforcement…