Mexico now using drones to smuggle drugs over our southern border

Six pounds of meth seized after smuggler’s drug-laden drone crashes near Mexico-California border 

The aircraft plummeted from the sky into a Tijuana supermarket parking lot Tuesday night as someone tried to fly the drugs into California near the San Ysidro border crossing. It's not the first time distributors have used drones to move the product, police said.

PHOTO: The drone loaded with packages containing methamphetamine lies on the ground after it crashed into a supermarket parking lot in the city of Tijuana on Tuesday. According to police, six packets of the drug, weighing more than six pounds, were taped to the six-propeller remote-controlled aircraft.

Smugglers are taking to the skies.

An innovative bandit along the Mexican border was using a six-propeller drone to transport meth into California when the drug-laden aircraft tumbled from the sky and into a bordertown supermarket parking lot, police in Tijuana said.

Some six pounds of the narcotic, placed in six separate packets and loaded onto the remote-controlled aircraft, were seized after the drone dropped Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing at Mexico’s border with California.

Authorities are looking for who was controlling the craft and where it came from.

Smugglers have previously used the small craft to ferry drugs into the United States, Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said.

Distributors have previously used tunnels, catapults and small planes to get drugs into the American market.