Source: Office of United States Attorneys
Jackson, Miss. – A Tennessee man was sentenced today to 2 months in prison for providing marijuana to an inmate of a federal prison. He will placed on supervised release for 3 years following his release from federal prison.
According to court documents, Mark Anderson, 50, of Tullahoma, Tennessee, flew a drone carrying approximately 195 grams of marijuana over the Federal Correctional Complex in Yazoo City and delivered it by releasing it from the air where an inmate would later retrieve it during the early morning hours of October 2, 2021.
Anderson pled guilty on September 26, 2024.
U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee of the Southern District of Mississippi and Acting Special Agent in Charge Eric DeLaune of Homeland Security Investigations made the announcement.
Homeland Security Investigations and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bert Carraway prosecuted the case.