MARTIN COUNTY — A mother and daughter are accused of using a drone to deliver tobacco and cellphones to an inmate in Martin Correctional Institution on Sunday.

Correctional officers said at 1:42 a.m., they noticed a drone hovering over an inmate housing unit at the prison, 1150 S.W. Allapattah Road, as well as a black pickup driving slowly around the prison parking lot.

When deputies arrived, they spoke with the pickup driver, Concetta Didiano, 22, of Tampa, after observing a drone hovering over the parked truck.

Deputies said Cassandra Kerr, 40, of Tampa, was in the the back seat of the pickup operating the drone. Kerr told deputies she was teaching her daughter, Didiano, to drive.

When deputies told the mother and daughter that corrections officers had found a package that was dropped off by a drone, Kerr told deputies she did it.

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Kerr told deputies she bought the drone on eBay and practiced flying it a few times before she dropped off the package at the prison.

Didiano later told deputies the pair was planning to deliver cell phones and tobacco to an inmate.

Kerr and Didiano each were arrested on a charge of introducing a communication device into a correctional facility. Kerr also faces a charge of operating a drone inside a critical structure.

Both were taken to the Martin County Jail.

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Kerr was released on $5,400 bail. Didiano was released after posting $750 bail.

Patrick Manderfield, the press secretary for the Florida Department of Corrections, said throughout the state incidents like this have only happened a handful of times.

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