Drug-carrying drone lands outside Virginia school

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, Va. — A drug-carrying drone that the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office says was bound for a Virginia correctional installation missed its intended people and landed extracurricular a school.

The drone was carrying a bundle that contained marijuana, tobacco, cellphones, and a USB‑C-to-lightning converter, investigators said.

Sheriff's deputies were called to Brunswick Academy successful Lawrenceville astatine astir 8:24 a.m. section clip Monday erstwhile schoolhouse employees reported that they recovered "a suspicious package" extracurricular the school.

"During our investigation, it was determined that this bundle was dropped astir 5:40 a.m. owed to the information that the witnesser saw a drone during that clip onshore connected the grounds," Brunswick County Sheriff Brian Roberts wrote successful an email. "Soon thereafter, the witnesser saw a tiny dark-colored sedan travel into the parking batch of the schoolhouse and drawback the drone."

The radical successful the car near the bundle behind, according to investigators.

"Based connected our investigation, it is evidently evident that the bundle was intended to beryllium dropped astatine the adjacent spot of the Lawrenceville Correctional Center, which is operated by a backstage institution named The GEO Group," Roberts said. "We person had galore calls for work astatine the situation this twelvemonth to see different drone sightings alleging the aforesaid transgression activity."

Roberts said the probe was ongoing.

This communicative was primitively published by Wayne Covil connected Scripps presumption WTVR successful Richmond, Virginia.