U.S. Border agents say they confiscated around 31 pounds of marijuana dropped in the Arizona desert by a drone late last year.
The Nov. 16 incident is the first “drone drug incursion” detected by Customs and Border Protection, the agency announced on Tuesday.
Agents at the Yuma Station watched an OctoCopter-style drone illegally enter U.S. airspace near San Luis, Arizona from Rio Colorado, Mexico and “jettison a bundle.”
Using night vision goggles, the Border Patrol Agents followed the drone to its drop point, where three bundles of marijuana — weighing around ten pounds each — were discovered along the bank of a canal, the news release said.
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