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#23132274 at 2025-06-06 18:28:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28212: Wrappin Up The Am News Edition
Two arrested for attempted drone contraband drop at Washington State Prison
Updated Fri, June 6th 2025 at 1:39 PM
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) - Two women were arrested for attempting to drop contraband with a drone at Washington State Prison on Thursday.
According to Washington County Sheriff's Office, around 9:00 PM, deputies patrolling the Davisboro area were told about a suspicious vehicle on the ground of the the prison.
Deputies located the vehicle and made a traffic stop, where they found evidence of a potential contraband drop.
They searched the vehicle and found three ounces of meth, five ounces of MDMA, four pounds of marijuana, four pounds of tobacco, a knife, 11 cellphones with charges and a drone with its remote and batteries.
All items were seized and authorities arrested 27-year-old Kendra Yates of Duluth, Ga. and 22-year-old Viviona Smith of Auburn, Ga. Both were charged with the following;
Trafficking and Possession of Meth
Trafficking and Possession of MDMA
Possession of marijuana with intent
Possession of marijuana over and ounce
Eight counts of items prohibited by inmates
Unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft
Possession of Knife or firearm during commission of crime
Possession of tools during the commission of a crime
This marks another in a long list of attempted contraband drone drops at Washington State Prison in the past year.
However, Sheriff Joel Cochran says his deputies , in partnership with the Georgia Department of Corrections, will continue to stop anyone attempting to commit these crimes.
"Despite our repeated efforts-successfully thwarting attempt after attempt-individuals continue to try their hand at smuggling contraband into Washington State Prison.
Let us be clear: the Washington County Sheriff's Office, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Corrections, remains steadfast and vigilant.
Whether it's drones, drop-offs, or some new tactic they think we haven't seen before, we're watching. We're tracking. And we're ready.
We take these criminal activities seriously, and we will continue to pursue charges to the fullest extent of the law. So, to those who keep trying we appreciate your consistency-it makes it easier to catch you."
https://wgxa.tv/news/local/two-arrested-for-attempted-drone-contraband-drop-at-washington-state-prison-washington-county-sheriffs-office-joel-cochran-meth-mdma-marijuana-cellphones-naroctics-drone-drop-inmates-drug-kendra-yates-viviona-smith-davisboro-contraband-drop
https://wgxa.tv/news/local/dangerous-deliveries-washington-county-prison-battles-rise-in-drone-contraband-drops-state-prisons-drones-fcc-faa-sheriff-joel-cochran-gdc-prison-contraband-trade-narcotics-weapons-guns-drug-trade-John-Fowler-gangs-daviboro-ga-cell-phone-jammers-crime#
#20474122 at 2024-02-25 12:17:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25114: The Rest Is History Edition
Georgia AG claims not having a phone makes you a criminal
https://georgiarecorder.com/2024/02/12/georgia-ag-claims-not-having-a-phone-makes-you-a-criminal/
A police officer watches as protester holds a Stop Cop City sign against the door in Atlanta City Hall. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
The ubiquity of smartphones is causing some to pine for simpler times, when we didn't have the entire history of humankind's knowledge at our fingertips on devices that tracked our every move. There's a growing trend, particularly among young people, to use non-smartphones, or "basic phones." The reasons range from aesthetic to financial to concern for mental health. But according to Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, having a basic phone, or a phone with no data on it, or no phone at all in the year 2024, is evidence of criminal intent. The AG's position poses grave dangers for all Georgians' constitutional rights.
Last month, Deputy Attorney General John Fowler argued in state court that mere possession of a basic cellphone indicates criminal intent to commit conspiracy under Georgia's racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations statute, better known as RICO.
His accusation was directed at 19-year-old Ayla King, one of 61 people indicted last summer on RICO charges linked to protests in the South River Forest where the $109 million Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, nicknamed "Cop City" by its opponents, is slated to be built. The RICO charges against King and the 60 other RICO defendants have been widely criticized as a political prosecution running contrary to the First Amendment. King is the first of these defendants to stand trial.
During the Jan. 8 hearing in Fulton County Superior Court, Fowler argued that a cellphone in King's possession on the day of their arrest, which he characterized as a "burner phone," should be admissible as evidence of wrongdoing, even though it contained no data. He went even further to suggest that not possessing a cellphone at all also indicates criminal intent. Judge Kimberly Adams agreed to admit evidence of King's cellphone.
Civil liberty groups are decrying the AG's argument and court's action as violations of constitutional rights under the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment. In an open letter to Attorney General Carr, the groups wrote, "It is alarming that prosecutors sworn to uphold the Constitution would even make such arguments-let alone that a sitting judge would seriously entertain them, and allow a phone to be searched and potentially admitted into evidence without any indication that it was used for illegal purposes."
The Supreme Court recognized in the 2014 case Riley v. California that cellphones carry enough personal information-photos, text messages, calendar entries, internet history, and more-to reconstruct a person's life using smartphone data alone. "Prior to the digital age, people did not typically carry a cache of sensitive personal information with them as they went about their day," the Court noted. "Now it is the person who is not carrying a cellphone, with all that it contains, who is the exception."
On the dark side of smartphones' interconnectivity is their susceptibility to surveillance. In 2022, it was reported that the U.S. Department of Justice had purchased for testing a version of the Phantom spyware from NSO Group, an Israeli firm which sold its surveillance technology to governments like Mexico and Saudi Arabia to spy on journalists and political dissidents. Phantom could be used to hack into the encrypted data of any smartphone located anywhere in the world, without the hacker ever touching the phone and without the phone's user ever knowing. The U.S. federal government denied using Phantom in any criminal investigation, but concerns about surveillance in the U.S. have led some folks to obtain basic phones.
Flip phones have made a comeback, and the potential for invasion of privacy is one of the reasons why. I'm not talking about the recent wave of smartphones that flip open. I'm talking about early 2000s-era basic phones, whose smartest feature was the game Snake or, if you were lucky, the ability to set your favorite song as your ringtone.
Folks are returning to basic phones-or in the case of Gen Z, turning for the first time-out of recognition that doom scrolling on a smartphone for hours each day is not good for mental health. For some older adults, basic phones, which offer few features beyond calling and texting, are preferable to smartphones for their simplicity. There are lots of reasons why someone might have a basic phone-not to mention they're cheaper and more durable than a lot of smartphones.
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#8372965 at 2020-03-11 02:17:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10719: Comfy With Frens At Feelz Bar Edition
>>8372922
Quite interesting.
4-5-1991
Senator John Heinz and six other people died today when his chartered plane collided in the air with a helicopter inspecting the plane's landing gear.
Burning wreckage fell on the grounds of an elementary school in nearby Lower Merion Township; two of the dead were children playing outside at noon recess.
Besides Senator Heinz, a Pennsylvania Republican, two other people on his plane and the two pilots on the helicopter were killed in the collision. At least two other children, the school custodian and an unknown number of other bystanders were injured, the local authorities said. One boy was burned critically.
The collision came after the Senator's plane reported a problem with its landing gear and the helicopter offered to fly nearby to see whether the gear was down for a landing, according to preliminary reports from aviation officials in Washington.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merion_air_disaster
Heinz, 52, was on his way to a meeting with constituents when his plane apparently developed landing-gear trouble near Philadelphia. A Sun Oil Co. helicopter–sent up to take a look–collided with the Heinz aircraft.
Authorities said that all three people in the plane and two in the helicopter were killed in the collision. Two children died when the flaming wreckage hit the ground outside Merion Elementary School.
Three other children and two school employees were injured.
Witnesses said that school janitor John Fowler, 48, heard the explosions then saw a 7- or 8-year-old boy run into the building, his clothing aflame. Fowler knocked the boy down and put out the fire with his hands, suffering second-degree burns.
"A teacher was trying to restrain (the boy)," Fowler said. "His pants were on fire. We knocked him down and snuffed it out.
"I saw two children on the ground," he added. "It was too hot to get close to them."
Anne Ravreby lives about a block from the school of 560 pupils, which her daughter attends. She noted that only parts of the first and second grades were on the playground when debris rained down.
"In another 10 minutes, they would have all been out there" for recess, she said standing amid electronic equipment, a pair of sunglasses and other aircraft debris that littered the ground for blocks in an affluent neighborhood of big houses and tall trees.
Hannah, 8, Ravreby's daughter, said that all the children on the playground started crying when the aircraft exploded above them.
"They were just scared, they were really scared," she said.
Joelle Morgan, 10, a fifth-grader who was in math class at the time, said that "the room started shaking and the windows blew open. The teacher yelled: 'Fire!' Everyone was crying. Everyone wanted to go home."
Two pilots on Heinz's twin-engine Aerostar PA60–Rick Shreck and Tron Stegan–died in the crash. Two men in the Bell 412 helicopter were identified as Charles J. Burke, 42, and Michael Pozzano, 43. Police withheld identities of the dead children.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-05-mn-2032-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/05/us/senator-heinz-and-6-others-killed-in-midair-crash-near-philadelphia.html