Chinese Customs Nabs Smugglers Using Drones to Transport iPhones - francisstims1950

Chinese custom officials from Shenzhen, China's technology hub, have successfully nabbed a group of smugglers WHO ill-used drones to transport 500 million Yuan dynasty worth of iPhones from Hong Kong to Shenzhen. Reuters reports that the officials were able-bodied to arrest 26 suspects who put-upon drones to fly two 200-meter cables 'tween Hong Kong and mainland China.

At a press conference held by Shenzhen customs it was unconcealed that the smugglers operated after midnight and used small bags to transport more than 10 iPhones across the border at once. The smugglers were fit to transport American Samoa many every bit 15,000 iPhones across the border in one night, the report revealed.

Chinese Customs Nabs Smugglers Using Drones to Transport iPhones — A dawdler that was confiscated after authorities arrested suspects WHO used drones to smuggle smartphones from Hong Kong to Shenzhen. Mental image Courtesy: Liu Youzhi/Southern Urban center Daily via REUTERS

The local, body politic-closely-held Legal Daily claimed it to be "the first case found in China that drones were organism used in cross-border smuggling crimes." Shenzhen customs immediately plans to proceed an eye verboten for much hi-tech smuggling operations and might use its own fleet of drones to combat illegal cross-border activeness.

China has been introducing new policies to regulate drone use in the country. Last year, the body politic enforced a sunrise rule which required civilian drone owners to show their drones using their real name calling. While it may be a first for China, victimization drones to smuggle items across the border ISN't something new for the US. In order to forestall the illegal use of the drones, the US requires drone owners to registry whatsoever twist which weighs over 0.55 pounds.