Drug Trafficking Drone Carries 28 Pounds of Heroin Across US-Mexico Border Sarah Berger - IBTimes
go to original August 16, 2015

In January, this drone carrying a shipment of methamphetamine crashed into a parking lot near the San Ysidro crossing at the US-Mexico border. (Sputnik)

Two men have pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs by a drone, the Los Angeles Times has reported. This is the first cross-border drug seizure by U.S. law enforcement involving a drone, federal authorities said last week.

Twenty-eight pounds of heroin were smuggled by the drone across the U.S. border near Calexico, near San Diego, in April. The two men who pleaded guilty were caught on Border Patrol cameras on April 28 retrieving the drugs near California Highway 98 in Imperial County, according to court records. U.S. law enforcement officials called drug-carrying drones an emerging threat but questioned how profitable the new method of smuggling can be, because drones are limited in how much they can carry.

"With border security tight, drug traffickers have thought of every conceivable method to move their drugs over, under and through the border," said U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy in a statement, the Los Angeles Times reported. "We have found their tunnels, their Cessnas, their Jet Skis, their pangas, and now we have found their drones."

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