Drone carrying meth crashes in Mexican supermarket parking lot
A drone with six pounds of with illicit methamphetamine crashed Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing at Mexico's border with California.
A drone with six pounds of with illicit methamphetamine crashed Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing at Mexico's border with California.
Police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a聽drone聽overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot.
Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said authorities were alerted after the聽drone聽fell Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing at Mexico's border with California.
Six packets of the drug, weighing more than six pounds, were taped to the six-propeller remote-controlled aircraft. Morrua said authorities are investigating where the flight originated and who was controlling it. He said it was not the first time they had seen聽drones聽used for smuggling drugs across the border.
Other innovative efforts have included catapults, ultralight aircraft and tunnels.
In April 2014, authorities in South Carolina found a聽drone聽outside the fence of a prison that had been carrying cellphones, marijuana and tobacco.
In July 2014, the Latin Times reported that drug trafficking organizations in Mexico are increasingly using drones to聽transport drugs.