{"id":213874,"date":"2025-06-25T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213874\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:59:11","slug":"bristol-man-charged-with-trying-to-fly-drugs-into-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213874\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol man charged with trying to fly drugs into prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident happened almost two years ago<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Erlestoke-Prison.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Erlestoke Prison in Wiltshire<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man from Bristol has been charged with drugs offences after a drone was intercepted flying over a prison 40 miles away in Wiltshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Oliver Onyeahasi has been charged with \u2018being concerned in the supply of\u2019 cocaine, cannabis, anabolic steroids and a Class C drug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 25-year-old, from Aberdeen Road in Cotham in Bristol, has been released on bail and must appear at Salisbury Magistrates Court on July 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for Wiltshire police said the charge was brought \u2018after a drone was intercepted at HMP Erlestoke which was attempting to convey in controlled drugs\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">That incident happened back in the early hours of October 1, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident happened almost two years agoErlestoke Prison in Wiltshire A man from Bristol has been charged with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,14486,188,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-213874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cotham","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114745545199592073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}