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		</div><h6><span style="color:#0a0101;">Border agents spotted drone swooping over the border fence on August 8 </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;">It was used to smuggle more than 13 pounds of meth from Mexico into U.S.</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;">US citizen, Jorge Edwin Rivera, allegedly was using the drone to smuggle meth across the border from Mexico</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;">Rivera, 25, arrested in San Diego by Border Patrol agents</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;">They tracked the drone crossing the border and caught him with 13lbs of meth</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;">Rivera admitted to using drones for smuggling multiple times </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;">He&#8217;s remanded without bail, arraignment scheduled September 7</span></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone wp-image-239153" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/drug-delivery-drone.jpg" alt="Drug delivery drone" width="689" height="423" /><strong> 2-foot-high drone that a border agent spotted delivering drugs across the border fence on August 8 </strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">A 25-year-old US citizen has been charged with using a drone to smuggle more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine from Mexico by drone, officials said on Friday.<br />
Jorge Edwin Rivera admitted using drones to smuggle drugs five or six times since March, typically delivering them to an accomplice at a nearby gas station in San Diego, according to police.<br />
It was an unusually large seizure for what is still a novel technique to bring illegal drugs into the United States.<br />
Rivera was initially apprehended on August 8, when Border Patrol agents tracked a drone across the border and followed it to Rivera, about 2,000 yards from the border.</p>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-239150" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/the-drugs-seized-from-riviera-by-agents.jpg" alt="The drugs seized from Riviera by agents.JPG" width="672" height="423" />Agents seized 12 bags of meth from Rivera, who had hidden them in a lunchbox</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Agents found Rivera with the methamphetamine in a lunch box and a 2-foot drone hidden in a nearby bush.<br />
The suspect said he was paid about $1,000 for the attempt that ended in his arrest, police said.<br />
The US Drug Enforcement Administration said in a recent annual report that drones are not often used to smuggle drugs from Mexico because they can only carry small loads, though it said they may become more common.<br />
Alana Robinson, acting US attorney for the Southern District of California, said drones haven&#8217;t appealed to smugglers because their noise attracts attention and battery life is short.<br />
Also, drone payloads pale in comparison to other transportation methods, like hidden vehicle compartments, boats or tunnels.<br />
As technology addresses those shortcomings, Robinson expects drones to become more attractive to smugglers.<br />
The biggest advantage for them is that the drone operator can stay far from where the drugs are dropped, reducing the risk of getting caught.<br />
&#8216;The Border Patrol is very aware of the potential and are always listening and looking for drones,&#8217; Robinson said.<br />
Rivera is being held without bail and is scheduled to be arraigned on September 7.</p>
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San Diego man, Jorge Edwin Rivera, arrested for using a drone to smuggle 13lbs of meth across border from Mexico
