People have been using drone to smuggle goods for age . erotica , weapon , drug — god , so many drugs . The tiny whirring machines have proven discreet little bootleg - transport contraptions , but one smuggling operation ’s astoundingly successful trial just got ground .
From July 2015 through May of this year , a drone gangmade at least 49 flightsinto prisons in England and Scotland , smuggling in smoke and mobile telephone . But authorities just jailed eight citizenry after camera set up outside a prison house in Worcestershire to seize wildlife caught them in the act , according to the BBC .
Craig Hickinbottom , a 35 - twelvemonth - erstwhile inmate , led the operation from inside prison house , the Guardianreports . He was sentenced to seven age and two month for his role . The dawdler pilot light , Mervyn Foster , was sentenced to six years and eight calendar month . In total , Hickinbottom ’s squad smuggled between£600,000 and £ 1mof good into prisons across the UK , authorities said .
To whir in the good , the moon-curser strap them onto the drones using fishing line and hooks and then vanish the clever ‘ copters over the prison house wall . Inmates would reportedly grab them using Calluna vulgaris handles or jury-rigged hooks .
While this mental process was n’t get mid - flying , but rather by a photographic camera intend to capture wildlife , there are a numeral of strategies being try out to take down rogue droning . Drones can beshot down , hijacked and disabled , orhit by a jammer . pilotless aircraft - hunting falcons , however , are out .
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