Smuggling illicit drugs across international borders can now be added to pizza delivery and targeted assassinations on the growing list of applications for drones.
Police in the Mexican border city of Tijuana said a small unmanned aerial vehicle overloaded with methamphetamine had crashed into a supermarket car park.
It was spotted about two miles from the San Ysidro crossing with California by an anonymous caller.
Officers said they recovered six packets of the drug, weighing more than six pounds, which were taped to the six-rotor remote controlled aircraft.
"It's probable that the drone couldn't hold the weight of the cargo, and that's why it fell," police said in a news release, adding that they had no leads on who was behind the plot.
It is just the latest example of criminals using innovative methods to transport contraband across the border. Previous efforts have included catapults and tunnels.
David Shirk, an expert in Mexican security and justice at the University of San Diego, said it was difficult to see what technology might bring next.
"This is a potentially new threat if it became used in a widespread way," he told the U-T San Diego. "If it can be useful and productive, organized crime groups will find a way."
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/11361825/Metha-drone-crashes-near-Mexican-border.html
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