The one in 2013 was fixed to a pickup truck, allowing the suspects to “drive up to the border, launch their contraband and drive away,” he said. Customs and Border Protection spokesman for the El Centro sector in Southern California, told The Washington Post that agents in that sector have not seen any cannons since.Įsparza said these contraptions are similar to a potato gun or T-shirt launchers, using built-up air pressure to shoot narcotics over the border. “They are definitely out of the ordinary.”
“That was actually a pretty good one,” Adame told CNN. Mexican police found a “homemade bazooka” that might've been used to fling drugs into the US /nIn0AjTw6EĪdame said that he had been in law enforcement for more than 20 years and that the homemade cannon discovered in Mexicali was “the first one that I’ve seen.” Customs and Border Protection at the time, told CNN after the incident.
“It seems like within the last five to 10 years they have gotten really, really creative in how they bring their drugs across,” Andy Adame, who was a spokesman for the U.S. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
