Cops in UK, Canada bust more drone contraband prison deliveries

New cases of attempted aerial drops of contraband into prison grounds have been thwarted on both sides of the Atlantic, with police in the UK and Canada moving fast to confound illicit drone activity within restricted jail airspaces.

As DroneDJ has reported in the past, use of drones to deliver prohibited items including drugs, tobacco, and smartphones into prisons has been on the rise around the world in recent years. Indeed, the illegal ferrying of contraband has expanded to become a constant plague for correctional authorities – fueling the growth of booming black market jail economies, and sparking periodic explosions of violence between competing inmate operators.

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The first recent case of that illegal activity arose in Canada in late August, with a pair of would-be contraband delivery pilots caught as they sought to fly a drone over the Collins Bay…