On Monday, Maryland law enforcement authorities announced the successful bust of two men who tried to use a drone to fly drugs and DVDs loaded with porn into the Cumberland prison in the western part of the state. It's the first incident of attempted drone contraband within the state, according to officials.

According to Robert Thomas, a spokesman with the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, the two men were stopped in a car along Highway 220 near the facility.

After searching the car, Maryland State Police recovered a quadcopter, synthetic marijuana (also known as “spice”), pornography, tobacco, a phone, a loaded handgun, and other materials. According to the Associated Press, the drone was a Yuneec Typhoon, which retails for around $1,300.

"They were apprehended close to their vehicle that was located on property adjacent to the North Branch Correctional Institution," Thomas told Ars. "A group of investigators were working in that area the night of the incident and apprehended them with their vehicle. In doing so, one tried to flee and ran into a dumpster and tried to hide in a dumpster, and the other was captured at the scene."

The gun likely was not going to be delivered by drone as it probably would have weighed down the aircraft.

“You can’t make this stuff up,” Stephen T. Moyer, secretary of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, told reporters at a press conference on Monday. According to The Washington Post, Moyer added that equipping prisons with drone detection infrastructure would cost up to $400,000 per facility.

The two men, Thaddeus Shortz and Keith Brian Russell, have been charged with various crimes, including illegal possession of drugs with the intent to distribute and illegal possession of a firearm.

The Maryland incident is by no means the first contraband-via-drone attempt throughout the US. In late July, a similar incident took place at the Mansfield Correctional Institution in Ohio, where a drone drop of drugs and tobacco resulted in an inmate brawl and a strip search of 205 men. And earlier this month, two men were arrested in Southern California near the US-Mexico border after allegedly using a drone to fly drugs into the country.