DUBLIN — Two San Francisco residents have been charged with smuggling methamphetamine-laced postcards into Santa Rita Jail final yr, when one in all them was behind bars in a housebreaking case, court docket data present.
Brandon Wilson-Rogers, 28, and Lastarr Russell, 25, have been charged with felony counts of bringing medication right into a jail and transportation of methamphetamine. Each have been launched from jail whereas the case is pending, data present.
In keeping with Alameda County Sheriff’s investigators, the plot was hatched final yr when Wilson-Rogers was behind bars for a industrial housebreaking. After intercepting methamphetamine-laced postcards within the mailroom, authorities reviewed calls and video visits the place Wilson-Rogers allegedly instructed Russell find out how to she ought to discover, put together, and ship the medication into the jail.
Throughout one video go to, Russell left with a to do record that together with buying as much as a quarter-ounce of methamphetamine, buying playing cards, buying a sprig bottle, and directions on find out how to spray liquified medication onto a greeting card.
“(Don’t) write on anything until after, and then what you do is, you spray it, but you got to make sure your far away,” Wilson-Rogers allegedly advised her throughout a video chat, completed on a jail-issued pill. Earlier within the chat, he allegedly advised her to go to a recognized drug spot and easily ask, “Who got it? Not the white stuff, the clear stuff.”
The medication confirmed up within the jail mailroom in October 2024, however a police K9 named Toby sniffed them out, in accordance with authorities.
Wilson-Rogers was launched from jail after pleading no contest to a housebreaking cost final January, court docket data present. He and Russell made their first court docket appearances on this case final September and have been launched with out bail.
