(Westville, IN) - Charges are filed in connection with another drug smuggling attempt at the prison in Westville.

 

Anterrion Chatfield-John, 23, and Donovan Nelson, 24, both of Fort Wayne were still being held today in the La Porte County Jail following their arrests Sunday night.

 

They both charged in La Porte Circuit Court with Level 5 felony trafficking with an inmate.

 

According to court documents, suspicious activity detected outside the prison grounds resulted in an officer using a drone to locate Chatfield-John lying in a cornfield near the prison wall.

 

He allegedly had a backpack containing a large amount of tobacco, roughly two ounces of marijuana along with rolling papers and a half dozen cigars.

 

Officers located Nelson in a car outside the nearby Taco Bell based on the description of a vehicle included in the suspicious activity report.

 

Police said Chatfield-John stepped out of that car with the backpack he intended to throw over the prison wall.  Nelson allegedly drove both of them to the prison.

 

Court documents revealed Chatfield-John claimed he was going to receive $1,000 and split the money with Nelson for smuggling the contraband into the prison.