13 Shockingly Creative Ways Drugs Have Crossed the Border

Let ’s clear this up right now : drugs are high-risk , smuggling is a offense , drug Lord and their seller are black - hearted , criminal , malignant person . But you have to admit : they ’re reasonably all-fired creative . And the means they ’ve used to get their product to their customers through the year are nothing poor of over-the-top .

Here are 13 barely believable method acting that have drive drugs from here to there . They may not be legal , but they sure are creative .

This improvised cannonwas confiscated in Mexicali, Mexico, on Feb. 26 of this year Police in the border city say the cannon was used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California. The truck-mounted device is made of PVC piping attached to an air compressor and driven by an automobile engine. It could launch up to 13kg of drugs at a time.

picture : Mexicali Public Safety Department / AP

A sailor walks past thishomemade semi-submersible vessel, seized on land by Colombian authorities from drug traffickers at the Bahia Malaga Navy base, on Colombia’s Pacific coast in 2009.

Photo : Christian Escobar Mora / AP

This powerboat was carrying a large haul of marijuana when the Danish police busted the armed smugglers on January 7th, 2013.

Photo : Soren Schnoor / POLFOTO / AP

A woman was arrested by airport police carrying almost three pounds ofcocaine in her breasts. You can see the drug implants—and the fresh surgical wound—in the image below.

Photo : La Policia Nacional

Suspected smugglers attempt to drive a silver Jeep Cherokee over the 14 feet high U.S.-Mexico border fence in Yuma, Arizona with the help of a makeshift ramp in Oct. 31, 2012.

Photo : U.S. Customs and Border Protection / AP

The entranceto an illegal cross-border tunnel found underneath a bathroom sink inside a warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico, 8 April 2025. The 220-yard tunnel, presumably designed to smuggle drugs into the United States, was lit and ventilated.

exposure : Alejandro Cossio / AP//ICE / AP

National Guard troops have seized a surprising number ofweed-firing catapultsover the years.

Photo : dossierpolitico.com / National Guard

Thisultra-light aircraftwas carrying 253lbs of marijuana when it was captured in December, 2008 in the Tucson, Arizona area. According to U.S. government statistics, there were 228 known aircraft incursion along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2010 alone.

Photo : Immmigration Customs Enforcement / AP

What to do with that old Wiipad you haven’t touched in years?Stuff it with marijuana, of course.

Drug smugglers used t-shirt Cannons to shoot canisters filled with marijuana 500ft over the border.

picture : CBP Arizona / Colin Ybarra

A 19-year-old man pretending to be disabled was caught with at the U.S.-Mexico border with this weed-stocked wheelchair in 2011.

This helicopter was transporting 760kg of cocaine when it crashed in Totonicapan, 200km northwest of Guatemala City, in 2003.

picture : Edgar Vasquez / El Nuevo Quetzalteco / AP

This plane crashed police blockade after pilots had unloaded drugs into several cars, in San Esteban, 160 kilometers east of Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2003).

Photo : Honduran Security Minister / AP

Top pic of seized marijuana found packed in coffee toilet at Tijuana ’s external airport : Guillermo Arias / AP

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A sailor walks past thishomemade semi-submersible vessel, seized on land by Colombian authorities from drug traffickers at the Bahia Malaga Navy base, on Colombia’s Pacific coast in 2009.#

This powerboat was carrying a large haul of marijuana when the Danish police busted the armed smugglers on January 7th, 2013.#

A woman was arrested by airport police carrying almost three pounds ofcocaine in her breasts. You can see the drug implants—and the fresh surgical wound—in the image below.#

Suspected smugglers attempt to drive a silver Jeep Cherokee over the 14 feet high U.S.-Mexico border fence in Yuma, Arizona with the help of a makeshift ramp in Oct. 31, 2012.#

The entranceto an illegal cross-border tunnel found underneath a bathroom sink inside a warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico, 8 April 2025. The 220-yard tunnel, presumably designed to smuggle drugs into the United States, was lit and ventilated.#

National Guard troops have seized a surprising number ofweed-firing catapultsover the years.#

Thisultra-light aircraftwas carrying 253lbs of marijuana when it was captured in December, 2008 in the Tucson, Arizona area. According to U.S. government statistics, there were 228 known aircraft incursion along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2010 alone.#

What to do with that old Wiipad you haven’t touched in years?Stuff it with marijuana, of course.#

Drug smugglers used t-shirt Cannons to shoot canisters filled with marijuana 500ft over the border.#

A 19-year-old man pretending to be disabled was caught with at the U.S.-Mexico border with this weed-stocked wheelchair in 2011.#

This helicopter was transporting 760kg of cocaine when it crashed in Totonicapan, 200km northwest of Guatemala City, in 2003.#

This plane crashed police blockade after pilots had unloaded drugs into several cars, in San Esteban, 160 kilometers east of Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2003).#

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