On December 21, 2023, Dedrick Sirmans pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia to knowingly operating an unregistered aircraft to facilitate a controlled substance offense.
The indictment alleged that, in September 2020, Sirmans attempted to fly an unregistered unmanned aircraft system weighing over .55 lbs. into Macon State Prison to distribute a controlled substance.