Gardaí probe how toy drone dropped supply of drugs to prisoner
A remote-controlled helicopter carrying drugs deliberately crash-landed at Dublin's Wheatfield Prison yesterday.
It is understood a prisoner was awaiting the drugs and swallowed some.
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