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Men with air cannon try hurling $200K worth of drugs into La. prison

Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies stopped the duo before they could launch meth and tobacco over the federal prison’s perimeter using compressed air

USP Pollock

Bureau of Prisons

By Natalie Demaree
Merced Sun-Star (Merced, Calif.)

COLFAX, La. — Two Colorado men are accused of trying to use an air cannon to launch more than $200,000 worth of drugs into a Louisiana prison, deputies said.

Jose Francisco Herrera Munoz, 18, and Angel Gonzales Gutierrez, 19, had $112,000 worth of tobacco and $89,500 worth of meth that they were trying to hurl “over a security fence onto the grounds of the federal prison,” the Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a Feb. 14 news release.

The cannon they planned to use is propelled by compressed air and has a range of over 350 feet, deputies said.

Grant Parish Sheriff Steven McCain told Louisiana Radio Network a deputy noticed the men and stopped them before drugs entered the prison.

“That much meth would have just been devastating in that population,” McCain said.

Munoz and Gutierrez are charged with attempting to introduce contraband into a penal institution and attempting to distribute meth, deputies said.

Grant Parish is about a 120-mile drive southeast from Shreveport.

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