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Big Eagle shows Tommy G how drones drop phones into Indiana prisons

A failed delivery in the rain and a return visit two months later give the documentary a less tidy ending than its title suggests.

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How Drugs Get Into Prison

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2:07Big Eagle shows the fishing drone and the release wire he uses to drop packages.
3:05Customers want drops packed in Faraday bags, the same bags used to hide phones inside.
4:49Packages are weighed, vacuum-sealed and covered with adhesive and cut grass as camouflage.
7:16Ex-inmate Kevin "K3" describes drones hanging packages on strings outside cell windows.
23:55A night drop at Westville is attempted in the rain; how it ends comes at 25:57.
28:56Two months later in Gary, Big Eagle reports an intercepted package and the risks his associates face.

It's a fishing drone. Its makers built it to fly bait out over water, and the masked man sitting with Tommy G in an Indiana motel room uses it to fly phones and tobacco over prison fences instead.

He goes by Big Eagle, and "How Drugs Get Into Prison" is largely his account. He weighs and vacuum-seals packages to stay under the drone's payload limit, then disguises them with spray adhesive and freshly cut grass so they blend into the yard. Some customers want their drop delivered in a Faraday bag, he explains, because that is how phones stay hidden from detection once they are inside.

The film is set around Westville Correctional Facility and the maximum-security Indiana State Prison. Tommy G ties the demand to staffing shortages and harsh conditions inside. A former Westville inmate, Kevin "K3", remembers drones trailing a string up to a cell window so a prisoner could reach out and take the package. Big Eagle says he started after serving time himself, and that a $7,000 bill for his daughter's braces is part of why he continues. "I mean, just trying to feed my family, you know?" he says.

The night mission does not go to plan. Rain damages the controller and the drone turns back without making its drop. Two months later, in an abandoned church in Gary, Big Eagle reports mixed results and one intercepted package. He also gives Tommy G a metal card of John Dillinger, the bank robber who left the Michigan City prison on parole in 1933. The video includes a paid segment for Chime.

The video drew about 1.2 million views since yesterday. In the comments, many viewers point out that a man who preaches secrecy is explaining his whole operation on camera. Others ask who absorbs the loss when a package gets caught, and several say they served time and are only now finding out how their contraband arrived.

The film ends with a line from Big Eagle that sounds more like a warning than a boast: this lifestyle, he says, ends only one of two ways, "dead or in jail."

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