A tiny DJI drone smuggled its own weight in drugs over the US border wall
Photo by Ryan Loughlin If you've ever wondered whether drug dealers might just fly packets of powder over the border wall with inexpensive consumer drones, wonder no more - the US Border Patrol caught a DJI Mini 2 dead to rights dropping off its own weight in meth last October.
That's according to a recently released search warrant from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which is trying to search the drone for evidence that might help them track down the pilot.
On October 7th, according to the affidavit, Tecate's Campo Border Patrol Station radioed that a drone was spotted flying over the 25-foot-high fence. An agent spotted the drone buzzing over a parking lot just the other side of the wall; watched it land; watched a grey Mercedes roll up with a...