the above is an 100 pound load of Marijuana found in Arizona, launched over the border
Mexican federal police said in a statement last week they found such van parked on a street in Agua Prieta, Mexico, along the border with Douglas, Arizona.
It was reported stolen from the city of Hermosillo in the Mexican state of Sonora over the summer.
Images provided by the Mexican police show the black van with hole cut in its roof with a cannon in the back of the van that could fire projectiles. Authorities also said they found an air compressor apparently used to launch packages.
Guillermo Esparza, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman for the El Centro sector in Southern California, told The Washington Post that air cannons are similar to potato guns or T-shirt launchers, using built-up air pressure to launch drugs, such as marijuana, over the border.
Above story was from 2016
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a22958/van-with-cannon-shoot-drugs-to-us/
https://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-narco-drug-cannon-discovered-across-border-from-arizona-2016-9
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/19/mexican-police-found-a-homemade-bazooka-that-may-have-launched-contraband-over-the-border
https://globalnews.ca/news/3696705/giant-marijuana-bundle-over-us-mexico-border/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/smugglers-attempt-drugs-contraband-border/story?id=42218894
below story is from Nov 2017
In Agua Prieta, Sonora, elements of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) in coordination with personnel of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), secured more than 800 kilos of marijuana, cartridges, chargers and a bazooka.
in 2012 Border Patrol found nearly three dozen canisters filled with 85 pounds of marijuana near Yuma, Ariz. and after smugglers in Mexico used a pneumatic-powered cannon to shoot the drugs 500 feet across the border.
the 2012 cans of pot in a Yuma Arizona field
There were 30 large cans of marijuana found in a field near Yuma, Ariz., — and that the cans apparently landed there after being fired from a pneumatic-powered cannon 500 feet away in Mexico. The pot totaled about 85 pounds and "was valued at $42,500,"
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/14/564050813/drug-shooting-bazooka-seized-in-mexico-as-smugglers-aim-skyward
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/12/12/167065545/flying-high-cans-filled-with-marijuana-shot-across-border-from-cannon
https://twitter.com/NTelevisa_com/status/930461610707247104/photo/1
https://noticieros.televisa.com/ultimas-noticias/aseguran-mas-800-kilos-marihuana-cartuchos-y-bazuca-sonora/
https://tucson.com/news/local/pot-shooting-bazooka-found-near-arizona-border/article_393f70cc-caff-11e7-81a6-23d948b26ce8.html
years ago I posted this
http://www.2oceansvibe.com/2013/02/28/when-drug-smugglers-take-the-direct-approach-presenting-the-marijuana-cannon/
Sooner or later both distance and accuracy is going to improve.
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