Jailed 'Iceman' Hacker Now Charged With Drone-Smuggling Scheme Orchestrated From Prison

In 2010, Max Ray Butler received a 13-year prison sentence for 'hacking' -- at the time, the longest one ever -- after stealing nearly 2 million credit cards and running up fraudulent charges over $86 million.
But eight years into his sentence, he's now being charged with commiting five more counts of wire fraud while still in prison, as well as possessing stolen credit card numbers and contraband in prison, plus two more related counts of conspiracy.
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Times:
Previously known as Max Ray Butler and by his hacker alias, 'Iceman,' Max Ray Vision has been charged in a nine-count indictment filed by federal prosecutors that places him at the center of a scheme that allegedly involved using a smuggled cellphone, stolen banking data and a consumer-grade drone to make an airdrop into prison, The Daily Beast first reported Friday.... Prosecutors alleged in the indictment that Vision used a smuggled T-Mobile 'My-Touch' cellphone while incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Center in Oakdale, Louisiana, to access the internet and obtain stolen debit card numbers.
'Using MoneyGram and Western Union websites, and their respective mobile applications,' a grand jury charged in the indictment, 'Butler wired funds from the bank accounts associated with the stolen debit card numbers to other inmates at Oakdale FCC,' including five co-defendants also charged in the indictment. He later instructed his fellow inmates to transfer the funds obtained from the stolen debit cards to a former cellmate who had been released in May 2015, according to the indictment... Vision's former cellmate allegedly used the stolen funds to purchase an unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, that was then used in April 2016 to attempt to smuggle another cellphone and other unspecified contraband into prison, according to the indictment...
He allegedly began using the smuggled Android phone in Oct. 2014, according to the indictment, roughly 18 months before the airdrop.

'The potential for greater crimes [sic] opportunities are obvious,' complained the Bureau of Prisons concluded in a report cited by The Daily Beast, 'i.e. escape, introduction of firearms, etc. 'Although [Vision] was only equipped with a smartphone, he proved that he is more than capable to disrupt and circumvent the security of the institution and present a clear danger to the community in general.'

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