Mexican Drug Smugglers Turn to Catapults, Cannons as Trump Border Wall Looms – IOTW Report

Mexican Drug Smugglers Turn to Catapults, Cannons as Trump Border Wall Looms

CNS: Mexican drug smugglers have turned to propelling their products across the border into the U.S., but will these devices be able to surmount Pres. Trump’s planned border wall?

On Feb. 10, Tucson, Ariz. border patrol agents noticed several people on the south side quickly retreating from the fence as they approached. When agents arrived at the fence, they found a catapult system attached to the south side of the border fence. They searched the area and located two bundles of marijuana.

Agents contacted law enforcement authorities in Mexico who responded to investigate. U.S. Border Patrol agents dismantled the catapult system, which was seized by Mexican authorities. Border Patrol agents took possession of the marijuana that weighed more than 47 pounds combined.

Last December, Border Patrol agents used multi-surveillance capabilities to catch smugglers using an air cannon to shoot a 34 pound bundle of drugs over the border from Mexico into Naco, Arizona.

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17 Comments on Mexican Drug Smugglers Turn to Catapults, Cannons as Trump Border Wall Looms

  1. This crap has been getting worse. since the day Obummer was elected.
    Here in San Diego, Drones aren’t a new thing for drugs. First they fly a Scout to check for BP, and then the Drugs come in.

  2. The border patrol could make a much more effective use of manpower if they used drones to surveil the border area from altitude, at least 8,000 feet. Regular camera by day
    , lower altitude and FLIR at night.
    Just a thought.

  3. ok … got a new business idea from Uncle Molon

    better than skeet or trap! …. live televised event! drug drone, hot-air balloon, catapult competition!

    we could advertise in National Rifleman & other sites … offer prizes … it’ll be a blast! (pardon the pun)

  4. @ironyCurtain: Anyone caught catapulting drugs into our country is already going to be in Mexico. You’d have to cross over the border, run them down, drag them over to the U.S., and then catapult them back. Or maybe catapult them over to the U.S. and then catapult them back. Either way it constitutes an illegal incursion into Mexico, and things would probably get real ugly real fast.

    But then you were just joking, right?

    Right…?

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