Two charged with smuggling meth into Santa Rita Jail

DUBLIN — Two San Francisco residents have been charged with smuggling methamphetamine-laced postcards into Santa Rita Jail last year, when one of them was behind bars in a burglary case, court records show.

Brandon Wilson-Rogers, 28, and Lastarr Russell, 25, were charged with felony counts of bringing drugs into a jail and transportation of methamphetamine. Both have been released from jail while the case is pending, records show.

According to Alameda County Sheriff’s investigators, the plot was hatched last year when Wilson-Rogers was behind bars for a commercial burglary. After intercepting methamphetamine-laced postcards in the mailroom, authorities reviewed calls and video visits where Wilson-Rogers allegedly instructed Russell how to she should find, prepare, and send the drugs into the jail.

During one video visit, Russell left with a to do list that including acquiring up to a quarter-ounce of methamphetamine, acquiring cards, purchasing a spray bottle, and instructions on how to spray liquified drugs onto a greeting card.

“(Don’t) write on anything until after, and then what you do is, you spray it, but you got to make sure your far away,” Wilson-Rogers allegedly told her during a video chat, done on a jail-issued tablet. Earlier in the chat, he allegedly told her to go to a known drug spot and simply ask, “Who got it? Not the white stuff, the clear stuff.”

The drugs showed up in the jail mailroom in October 2024, but a police K9 named Toby sniffed them out, according to authorities.

Wilson-Rogers was released from jail after pleading no contest to a burglary charge last January, court records show. He and Russell made their first court appearances in this case last September and were released without bail.