Man Smuggled 13 Pounds of Meth From Mexico Using a Drone
Source: Associated Press
AUG 19 2017, 11:15 AM ET
by ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN DIEGO — A 25-year-old U.S. citizen has been charged with using a drone to smuggle more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine from Mexico by drone, an unusually large seizure for what is still a novel technique to bring illegal drugs into the United States, authorities said Friday.
Jorge Edwin Rivera told authorities that he used drones to smuggle drugs five or six times since March, typically delivering them to an accomplice at a nearby gas station in San Diego, according to a statement of probable cause. He said he was to be paid $1,000 for the attempt that ended in his arrest.
Border Patrol agents in San Diego allegedly saw the drone in flight on Aug. 8 and tracked it to Rivera about 2,000 yards from the Mexico border. Authorities say agents found Rivera with the methamphetamine in a lunch box and a 2-foot drone hidden in a nearby bush.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in a recent annual report that drones are not often used to smuggle drugs from Mexico because they can only carry small loads, though it said they may become more common.
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trump says to hell with a wall
he's building a DOME and the whole world is gonna pay for it!!!!!
(rim shot)
Don't want people coming across the border for work? Come down, HARD, on the employers who hire them. I mean stiff fines and jail time. But expect the cost of your food to go up, among other things, and of course it could be looked upon as "anti-business" and we can't have THAT.
Don't want drugs coming across the border? Do something about WHY people do drugs. Better education, job opportunities. People do drugs when they're bored, stressed and hopeless. Do something about those problems and drug use will go down. Of course, that could mean less need for law enforcement and prisons. Those are businesses too.
But TOTALLY impractical! The Republicans LOVE to hire their slave wage immigrants in their companies (but they'll convince ignorant Americans that the immigrants are the problem), and those other programs to curb the NEED for drugs? Well, those cost money, and how could the country afford massive tax cuts for the rich, AND pay for those programs as well? 
You HAVE to have your priorities, you know? 
