DUBLIN — Two San Francisco residents, Brandon Wilson-Rogers, 28, and Lastarr Russell, 25, have been charged with smuggling methamphetamine-laced postcards into Santa Rita Jail last year, court records reveal. At the time, Wilson-Rogers was already incarcerated on a burglary charge.
The pair face felony counts for bringing drugs into a jail and transporting methamphetamine. Both have been released from custody while the case is pending.
Alameda County Sheriff’s investigators say the scheme was orchestrated while Wilson-Rogers was behind bars. After meth-laced postcards were intercepted in the jail mailroom, authorities reviewed phone calls and video visits that allegedly show Wilson-Rogers directing Russell on how to source, prepare, and send the drugs.
In one video call, Wilson-Rogers allegedly provided Russell a detailed “to-do list,” including acquiring a quarter-ounce of methamphetamine, greeting cards, a spray bottle, and instructions to spray the drugs onto the cards. “Don’t write on anything until after, and then what you do is, you spray it, but you got to make sure you’re far away,” Wilson-Rogers allegedly said during the call using a jail-issued tablet. He also reportedly instructed her to go to a known drug location and ask for “the clear stuff.”
The contraband appeared in the jail mailroom in October 2024, but a police K9 named Toby detected it before it reached inmates.
Wilson-Rogers had been released from jail after pleading no contest to burglary in January. Both he and Russell appeared in court for the new charges in September and were released without bail.
