{"id":197361,"date":"2026-03-09T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197361\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:21:08","slug":"2-texas-women-charged-for-allegedly-using-drones-plastic-crows-to-smuggle-drugs-phones-into-louisiana-federal-prison-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197361\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Texas women charged for allegedly using drones, plastic crows to smuggle drugs, phones into Louisiana federal prison, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Texas women face multiple charges after allegedly using drones and plastic crows to smuggle drugs, cell phones and tobacco into a federal prison in Grant Parish, Louisiana, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Jean Worthington, 38, of Joshua, Texas, and Kassy Marie Cole, 41, of Hurst, Texas, attempted to fly the plastic crows filled with contraband using drones, the Grant Parish Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said the women admitted to being paid $40,000 to smuggle the items.<\/p>\n<p>Worthington has been charged with possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and taking contraband into a penal institution.<\/p>\n<p>Cole is charged with possession of synthetic marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, taking contraband into a penal institution and an outstanding warrant.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/february-10-2026-1-2.png#.png\" alt=\"2 Texas women charged for using drones, plastic crows to smuggle drugs, phones into Louisiana federal prison \" height=\"325\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Grant Parish Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Texas women face multiple charges after allegedly using drones and plastic crows to smuggle drugs, cell phones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6073,1192,3328,21471,4437,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-197361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-drone","tag-louisiana","tag-marijuana","tag-methamphetamine","tag-prison","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}