Now the smugglers are trying to do business by air, too, in unmanned aerial vehicles.
The drone was loaded with more than 6 pounds of the synthetic drug crystal meth, Tijuana police said.
The drone crashed Tuesday night in a supermarket parking lot in Tijuana.
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“When you look at cartels, their goal is to flood the U.S. with as much drugs as they possibly can,” Barden said. “It also could have been a test run for something bigger.”
CNN’s Devon Sayers and Michael Martinez contributed to this report