Ultralight plane flies over border wall and drops $500,000 in hard drugs in California town
by Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security Reporter |
| December 04, 2020 05:40 PM
Border Patrol agents seized nearly half a million dollars worth of drugs that were dropped 10 miles from the border of California by an ultralight aircraft that had flown over the border from Mexico into the United States before quickly returning.
Federal law enforcement agents in Calexico, California, discovered the drug smuggling attempt as it unfolded Thursday night. Agents on patrol in southeastern California heard a loud noise in the sky and reported it to the station’s video surveillance team, which confirmed an ultralight was flying over the border into the U.S. Ultralights resemble go-karts and are operated by one pilot, according to Customs and Border Protection. They have been used in the El Centro region to move smaller quantities of drugs over the border wall.
Agents were alerted by the surveillance team that the ultralight had landed in a neighborhood approximately 10 miles north of the international border. Responding agents found three large bundles that had been dropped from the aircraft for a smuggler to pick up and transport. No one was arrested, and the ultralight flew back to Mexico before federal agents were able to interdict it.
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