Plane smart! Smugglers use remote-controlled aircraft to fly in ca

[kiwi_farmer]

Smugglers are using remote controlled planes to sneak drugs into Europe without fear of being caught.

Police found a device carrying 2.2 kilos of cannabis resin after it crashed in the Mediterranean between Morocco and Spain.

Officers suspect the customised, petrol-powered plane was controlled by a pilot in a boat following as it attempted the 19-mile trip to Tarifa on the southern coast

 

Inside the structure they found two packets containing the drug, worth around 2000 euros (£1,700).

Officers from Spain's Civil Guard force were stunned when they discovered the new system for drug smuggling, two miles north of the Moroccan coastline, last week.

A police source said: 'The smugglers are resorting to more and more ingenious ways of getting their drugs into Europe as we continue to crack down trafficking.

 

'The device we found can only be used within about 800 meters of the remote control, so it must have had a boat guiding it across.

'It was capable of making the journey in under an hour.

'It's possible smugglers are using other devices with GPS tracking that could guide them to prefixed co-ordinates in Spain.'

Drug gangs are known to use makeshift submarines to help smuggle cocaine into the U.S. from Latin America.

 

 

 

By Tom Worden

 

Last updated at 2:17 PM on 21st November 2011

 

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[iTiC]

As they 'continue to crack down' on drugs these guys with have the means to keep making huge amounts of money.

I think drug smugglers will be the first people to be able to afford research into molecular transportation.

[Stix87]

what a way to smuggle drugs

[Mama Cass]

Mmmmm........ hot air balloons might be nice too......disguised as a sandbag then you can drop where you want.

[smashed1]

, reminds me of the pigieon packed to heavy an trying to fly over the mexican jail wall , gaurds cort it ,

[Allotropy]

Brilliant, with problems comes solutions, however practical/impractical they may be. Wonder if people be using the same concept to smuggle drugs over the mexican/us border, hmm.

Course you can just drive over the borders here in AU, no problem.

Edited January 6, 2012 by Anthesis

[Passport420]

How simple! Good on them for trying