Smuggling Drugs with a Remote-control Helicopter

Posted by Miss Cellania in Crime & Law, Toy & Video Games on January 12, 2009 at 2:15 pm


Was it a case of drug smuggling or not? First, closed circuit cameras picked up the image of a tiny helicopter flying into the compound at Elmley Prison in Sheerness, Kent, England. The next night, guards saw the flying object.

However, staff could not find any trace of either the helicopter or the package which it appeared to be carrying underneath it when they searched the Category C jail.

‘Using a mini-helicopter to get contraband into jails is unprecedented. When officers spotted it they nearly fell off their chairs’, a prison source told the Sun.

‘It could have been drugs or a mobile phone in the package. It is possible it was a dummy run.’

Maybe the helicopter flew out as well. Link -via Unique Daily


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7 comments to "Smuggling Drugs with a Remote-control Helicopter"

  1. Skipweasel
    January 12th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Bah - 20 years or more ago I wrote a draft plot for a novel about using low-flying drones to smuggle drugs across the US-Mexico border rather like a scaled down V1.

    In this case, however, it strikes me as a bit too likely to attract attention. I reckon a gas mortar firing tennis-balls full of drugs would be a lot cheaper and less likely to get caught.

  2. shawnisboring
    January 12th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    guards playing

  3. SenorMysterioso
    January 12th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    Not a bad way to deliver drugs, just about any remote heli would work. You wouldnt even need a very sophisticated way to attach them, a piece of duct tape would work just fine. To carry a cell phone however, you would need a pretty hardy mini heli.

    Tennis ball idea works too. I know Ive launched some pretty far using a potato gun when I was a kid.

  4. jodie
    January 12th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    hopefully they won't combine it with the helicopter with the .45 attached to it that was posted here a few weeks ago. because, yikes!

  5. Nathan Miller
    January 12th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    This article doesn't present a group of people who seem terribly alarmed about this fact. Like "Oh well, another smuggling."

    @jodie - what if it had been a gun the copter was smuggling?

  6. sw
    January 12th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    beats the traditional smuggling via bodily orifices!

  7. ted
    January 12th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    No, sw, nothing beats that. You simply have to try it.


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