A small aerial drone crashed about two miles from the U.S. border in Mexico carrying several pounds of methamphetamine, Mexican police said Wednesday. The discovery at a shopping mall parking lot in Tijuana, within walking distance of the U.S. border crossing, raises the prospect of a new, high-tech front in the struggle between drug gangs and law enforcement.
Tijuana’s metropolitan police department said an anonymous caller reported the crash of the remote control aircraft at about 10 p.m. Tuesday. Officials from the Mexican Attorney General’s Office were seen scouring the area on Wednesday.
A Tijuana police official said the drone probably was being used to ferry drugs between neighborhoods, and not across a heavily populated and guarded section of the U.S.-Mexico border where it was likely to be spotted.
Police identified the drone as a “Spread Wings 900,” a device with six skyward propellers that is available on Amazon for about $1,400. It was loaded with six packages of drugs weighing about three kilos, or nearly seven pounds.
“It’s probable that the drone couldn’t hold the weight of the cargo, and that’s why it fell,” police said in a news release.
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