The 'marijuana cannon' seized in Mexicali on Tuesday, which uses an old car engine to generate compressed air. Photograph: AP |
Police in the border city of Mexicali say they have recovered a
powerful improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a
border fence into California.
Police
told the Televisa network that the device was made up of a plastic pipe
and a crude metal tank that used compressed air from the engine of an
old car.
The apparatus fired cylinders packed with drugs
that weighed as much as 13 kilos, police said. It was confiscated last
week after US officers told Mexican police that they had been
confiscating a large number of drug packages that appeared to have been
fired over the border. Mexican police on the border have recovered a
series of similar devices in recent years.
Culled from www.guardian.co.uk
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