Drug Smugglers Now Shooting Cannons Into United States, Using Cans of Weed as Ammo
|The ammo from a weed cannon.|
There's the old trick of hiding the drugs in fruit; we've even seen piñatas. We've also seen at least one instance of someone trying to drive over a 14-foot border fence. Now, Border Patrol agents believe that smugglers are using cannons to shoot cans of weed from Mexico into the United States.
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According to the Border Patrol, agents responded to a call outside of Yuma, and discovered not only 33 cans of marijuana, but a carbon-dioxide tank as well.
As you can see from the photo above, between the tank, and cans of weed being embedded into a dirt field, it sure seems like there's a pneumatic cannon involved.
Border Patrol's thinking these cans were shot about 500 feet through the air.
The marijuana in the cans totaled about 85 pounds, according to Border Patrol.