Men near Alabama prison had T-shirt cannon, face contraband charges: ADOC
Two men criminally trespassing near a north Alabama prison Wednesday night are facing contraband and other charges after authorities say they were found with a T-shirt cannon and a duffel bag with two packages.
The Alabama Department of Corrections’ Law Enforcement Services Division and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s State Bureau of Investigation arrested Alvin Andrews and Ladarius McDade on Wednesday near Limestone Correctional Facility, the ADOc said Thursday.
A suspicious vehicle was reported near Nick Davis Road around 11:22 p.m. Wednesday when the vehicle fled the scene. A pursuit ensued and ended in a nearby neighborhood cul-de-sac, where Andrews and McDade, who was released from Bullock Correctional Facility on Feb. 11, were apprehended.
While authorities searched the path of the pursuit, they found a blue duffel bag and a T-shirt cannon. Inside the duffel bag were “two cylinder-shaped packages wrapped with black tape, a night-vision monocular and an extra CO2 cartridge,” the ADOC said.
Both men were taken to the Limestone County Detention Center, where they were booked on charges of promoting prison contraband, trespassing about prisons and attempting to elude, authorities said.
The investigation was ongoing as of Thursday and further charges may be added, the ADOC said.