Officers rushed into the north yard of Mansfield Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Ohio, last week after noticing 75 inmates gathering and a fight breaking out, according to an incident report from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
It wasn't until authorities later reviewed
surveillance tape that they saw what led to the fisticuffs: A drone had
flown over the yard, an aerial vehicle that authorities later
determined dropped a package.
Inmates
were able to get their hands on the delivery containing 144.5 grams of
tobacco, 65.4 grams of marijuana and 6.6 grams of heroin before the
fight ensued and the package was thrown into the prison's south yard,
the incident report said.
If the heroin is half pure, that package amounts to about 140 individual doses, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
Officers
had to use pepper spray to get the situation under control, according
to the report. Inmates were later strip-searched before being allowed to
return to their cells.
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Nine inmates were placed in solitary confinement following the incident.
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