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| Criminals Are Using Drones to Smuggle Drugs and Contraband Into Prison. Big Deal. |
| By slate.com- Justin Peters |
| Published: 01/22/2016 |
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As long as prisons have existed, inmates and their free-world buddies have been trying to smuggle things inside. You can understand the impulse: In the land of homemade rot-gut liquor and exorbitant prices for phone calls, the man with marijuana and a cellphone is king. But it’s not always easy getting these goods inside. Traditional smuggling strategies, like having visitors conceal contraband inside body cavities or hollowed-out loaves of bread, are by no means foolproof. Not only does the smuggler risk injury or embarrassment, but he risks getting caught and going to jail, where he will then have to rely on someone else to play the hollowed-out-loaves-of-bread game. There’s got to be a better way! For some enterprising prison smugglers, there is a better way, and it’s drones. Over the past few years, inmates and their allies have been using small consumer drones as tools to get contraband material—cellphones, narcotics, and the like—over the walls from a distance. Smugglers will pilot the drone over the prison walls under cover of darkness, deliver the payload, and leave it there to be retrieved. Take that, hollowed-out loaves of bread! Read More. |
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