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Smuggling Drugs Across The Mexican Border? There's A Drone For That

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Worried about the honesty of your drug mule? Concerned that your smugglers will demand higher and higher minimum wage? There's a drone for that. Once again technology has enabled 'progress' as AP reports police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a drone overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot. As AVWeb notes, drones carrying illegal drugs and contraband have been among the creative ideas used by smugglers, and crashes do happen from loss of control or perhaps weight-and-balance problems. Brings a whole new meaning to 'Breaking Bad'.

 

Drug-Drone-Down!!

 

As AP reports,

Police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a drone overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot.

 

Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said authorities were alerted after the drone 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, authorities said.

 

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 drones used for smuggling drugs across the border.

 

Other innovative efforts have included catapults, ultralight aircraft and tunnels.

As AVWeb adds, The AP also reported this week a man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to fly a drone laden with cell phones, tobacco and marijuana into a maximum-security prison in South Carolina in 2014.

The drone crashed in the bushes outside a 12-foot razor wire fence at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville.

 

It was the first known attempt to fly a drone with contraband into that state’s prisons, but the idea isn't new, the AP reported.

 

In 2013, four people in Georgia were accused of using a drone to fly tobacco and cellphones into a state prison there.

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More robots replacing humans? Where is a drug mule supposed to earn a fair wage?

 

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Thu, 01/22/2015 - 16:54 | 5693646 PartysOver
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Oops

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:01 | 5693663 knukles
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Mrs K and I were having lunch out today and the place had CNN, MSNBC and Fox news on .... each wall, a wall of propaganda.
So Fox has a piece abut the drug drone crashing and guess what!?!?!?!?
Now, we're under attack by drones!
We're losing the Drug War so now we have to have a Drone War!
The War on Drones

Didn't mention anything about the US drones killing small brown people, but Jesus folks, y'all can't expect us to get every base covered now, can 'ya?

There's a Drone Gap!

Where's Gen. Buck Turgidson when we need him?  Oh yeah, purged out under the Pajamo Administration for being forthright and homophobic.
Forward!

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:01 | 5693675 SickDollar
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you got to love the CIA

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:04 | 5693683 nope-1004
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Looks like the Bush family has some competition.  Drones to be banned in   3 - 2 - 1 . . .

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:14 | 5693722 taketheredpill
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The Drones are coming TO the US, not FROM.  $150K meth and each Drone is $5K.  Bet they've been doing this for a while.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:54 | 5693883 NotApplicable
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Wait, you think the Bushies are smuggling drugs into Mexico????

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:58 | 5693897 Arrowflinger
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Now that's a real downer.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:48 | 5694095 jimmytorpedo
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I proposed using a remote controlled airplane with two remotes to go across the border back in the '90's.

Yeah, I hung with that crowd back then.

My town was the buckle in the green belt.

A bottle of Ardbeg to the first person who guesses which town I lived in.

Hint,..it was a Canadian Western province,...

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 19:04 | 5694145 Bush Baby
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Don't forget the remote controlled quick release , this way no need to land it, after drop fly back home.

Supply and Demand - no stopping it

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:06 | 5693914 Agstacker
Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:08 | 5693698 McMolotov
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I know I've mentioned this before, but I live near my parents and visit them every week or so. Whenever I go to their house, they have Fox News on, and they switch around between that and CNN and the Sunday morning political shows.

It's like walking into Bizarro World, and I literally laugh out loud at something stupid almost every time. Some of the "reporting" is just so patently absurd and infused with propaganda that it's almost like watching satire.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:12 | 5693710 kowalli
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You just outside matrix box.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:32 | 5694025 jbvtme
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McM...when i go into someone's house: parents, relatives, friends, etc. the tv is turned off or i leave

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:12 | 5693714 Ignatius
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Once you've stepped through the looking glass... nothing is ever the same.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:11 | 5693902 NotApplicable
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To me the entire edifice of government is nothing but "The Emperor's New Clothes." It's just a bunch of people pretending they have the right to rule over everyone else. When in reality, it's just the same ole gangsterism as usual.

http://isil.org/pol/

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:14 | 5693939 cynicalskeptic
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Scarier stiill it seems as if it's ALWAYS FOX 'NEWS' if the TV in any public venue is tuned to 'news'.....  

Lots of basic cable systems have FOX as your only cable 'news' choice too....   It's truly scary listening to a loyal Fox drone - they actually believe all the BS they're fed and think the rest of the world is delusional.....The evil 'liberal' media is in control EVERYWHERE ELSE - yeah that bastion of 'liberalism' The NY Times - the paper that sat on the domestic spying story at the request of Bush..... My response is WHAT 'liberal' media?!?!?!?   95% of ALL media is owned by 6 corporations

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:25 | 5693993 Implied Violins
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You are doing better than me. When I have that shit FORCED on me I literally start shaking with rage, especially when someone like Hannity or Judge Jean comes on. I have to leave the room or try to talk over it. And no, meds don't help I tried...

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 05:59 | 5695639 localizer
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It's not news, it's entertainment! Problem is some folks don't get it...

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:09 | 5693922 Yen Cross
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 Knuks, I appreciate all his help with various charities, but if Bill O'Rielly were running the White House, we'ld all be radioactive.

 He seems nice enough, but has zero understanding of finance and real Geopolitics. I've watched many people run for political office on ideas they believe in. Unfortunately those ideas aren't reality.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 19:10 | 5694166 knukles
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Wasn't his last job before telly commentator mayor of Fukushima?

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:06 | 5693693 BorisTheBlade
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The harbinger of things to come, I am surprised that they are not proliferated more.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:11 | 5693717 1000yrdstare
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Meh...not bad, but where are the wedding busting hellfires on that thing? talk to me then...

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:15 | 5693944 Bloppy
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Oh crap, that was my Amazon.crack order

 

LA Times: Did Pope flash ‘devil’s sign’?

http://tinyurl.com/mpzzxkv

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 16:54 | 5693647 Dick Gazinia
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Tweeker One-Nine, Tweeker One-Nine

Crank is falling out of the sky.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 16:53 | 5693648 90's Child
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If they ban drones then only the criminals will have drones.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:16 | 5693951 cynicalskeptic
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The day Jamie Dimon looks out his corner office window and sees one hovering  will be the day they're banned........

 

Just think of the video a drone could get from that vantage point.....

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:36 | 5694038 MsCreant
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Video? You think small. Sight picture for the money shot.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 16:55 | 5693650 localizer
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Some folks got too greedy... "overloaded drone", LOL.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:12 | 5693715 taketheredpill
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They should have gone with Recommended Payload instead of Maximum Payload.  Next time.

 

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 16:57 | 5693656 replaceme
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Looks like a mix of meth and weed, no?  would have probably been ok with just the weed, I reckon.  And seriously, these drones were just RC multi-copters 5 years ago, think the term is misused.  I'm getting grumpy as I get older, dang.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:18 | 5693759 replaceme
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..were taped to the six-propeller remote-controlled aircraft, authorities said.   So yea, it's just an RC 'copter flown by someone that failed FlighSim 101.  These guys are not even trying.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 16:58 | 5693662 allinwood
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See kids.. that's what happens when drones do drugs

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:01 | 5693667 Ignatius
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"Illicit drugs will only come into this country via approved routes and for the benefit of our political friends." --  CIA

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:10 | 5693928 Tuco Benedicto ...
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Exactly right Ignatius!  The CIA brings in the drugs and the big banks launder the money taking 20% off the top.

Rumor has it that works great in Afghanistan as well!

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html

 

I am Tuco and I say death to the new world order and all the punks that work for them!

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:19 | 5693969 cynicalskeptic
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Side benefits are:

1) the masses pay for the SOMA that keeps them drugged and oblivious 

2) prisons are kept full with the unprotected low level dealers and desperate users  (exceptions are made for the wealthy recreational users)

it's a 'win-win' in keeping the masses under control.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 16:59 | 5693668 clade7
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Typical Fed Ex

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:30 | 5694009 Implied Violins
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Typical Ex Fed

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:01 | 5693671 Stoploss
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Just think if you were in the right place at the right time with an RF intereferance device.

Free shit coming down.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:45 | 5693854 css1971
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Gps controlled, not radio.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 19:03 | 5694129 exi1ed0ne
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This made my brain hurt.  GPS satellites transmit radio signals that the GPS receivers use to triangulate their position.

More likely this is a direct control drone though.  The current ones have the ability to fly home or soft land if comms are cut or battery is low.  At a guess the extra weight drained the battery faster then the smugglers anticipated and the drone went to soft land, but the extra weight caused it to hard land. 

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:01 | 5693673 astoriajoe
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Senator Schumer will surely call for a living wage for drug mules?

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:06 | 5693677 pashley1411
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Pfft, drones, why bother?

Promise the Parasite-in-Chief that you'll vote blue.

They'll send a bus to the Tijuana bus stop of your choice, waive your brown-ass, and your 6 kids, right through customs, in Spanish.  

First voter registration is free.   Actually, the other voter registrations will be free as well.   What a country!

Moar votes, moar clients

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:11 | 5693704 taketheredpill
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Do the unemployed Drug Mules get counted as Discouraged Workers?

 

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:16 | 5693740 replaceme
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Seriously, if I were to put one of those up, I'd go hindenburg with it - nice, aero blimp with a ducted fan not so likely to crash and burn.  Cartel guys, drop me a line, I will sketch something up for you.  Hint: it will look like a balloon filled with meth.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:37 | 5693817 css1971
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Quite expensive. You're talking about $4k for a small outdoor blimp.

Not that I've thought of using them for carrying drugs. Occifer.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:17 | 5693756 besnook
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this is news but nutandyahoo speaking before congress without an invite from the potus is not. gotcha.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:23 | 5693773 Augustus
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O'Bungles is not in charge of the borders.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:40 | 5693810 monad
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Jerry Brown signed multibillion tax dollar surveillance treaty with Israel.

http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18438

http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18429

Kalifornia Uber Alles

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:30 | 5693797 monad
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At least Juan doesn't have to pay back his Jared Loughner Merit scholarschip. He's just out a toy.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:39 | 5693819 konputa
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And to think we ridiculed Amazon when they announced their intention to use delivery drones. Apparently they were onto something.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:20 | 5693974 cynicalskeptic
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Copy cats.....     

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 17:43 | 5693840 Bazza McKenzie
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So helicopter Ben's proposal has come to pass - they're just handing out meth instead of dollars.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:06 | 5693918 p00k1e
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Children can find that lost meth. 

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:07 | 5693919 swass
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Oh wonderful.  Now government will ban private use of drones in their war on drugs, so they are the only ones that can use them on us.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:07 | 5693920 economessed
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I remain highly amused by the creativity the Mexicans apply in meeting domestic demand for drugs.  If these folks ran the US Postal Service, we'd pay $0.03 to mail a medium-sized box across the US, and it would arrive within 24 hours. 

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 20:55 | 5694564 Kalevi
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You are so right, took 6 months by post to get a birth certificate from Europe (no Fedex option) to Mex, few tons of goods went other way by that time I´m sure.

But still, faster then Obamas cert.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:17 | 5693957 Rockfish
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I've seen that drone - Amazon 

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 18:30 | 5694011 lesterbegood
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Just a little dronewalking by PlaceHolder @ the DOJ?

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 19:27 | 5694237 q99x2
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Crosby Stills Nash and Young don't sing about drones bringing drugs from Mexico so I don't believe it. The truth is past. The future is an illusion and I can't go on. But I will. F'n A I will.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 19:50 | 5694335 Aremo
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How long before the police start crashing drones of illegal drugs into properties they want to steal?  I know, I know, that would never happen because all cops are honest defenders of the kingdom of the goodness and all but just saying - how long before its common place?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 03:04 | 5695469 medium giraffe
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No need to waste the drone.  Just drop the drugs on your property.  Right there, on your front lawn.  For all the world to see.  Look, right there.  Drugs.

 

'you're coming with us sir'.

 

 

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 20:52 | 5694547 Smiley
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Old news if you live in SoCal.  Got some buddies that like to fly remote control helicopters and planes in the desert.  Sometimes they get inspected and get their entire trailer gone through cabinet by cabinet.  The border patrol and ICE are not friendly about it at all.  Fair waring if airborne RC is your thing, it attracts a lot more attention than you might think out here.

Took the feds awhile to figure out why the on foot drug mules are only bringing up big bags of pot and no coke or smack...

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