This is not the first instance of drones being used for smuggling - previously, a fixed-wing drone carrying cigarettes across the Russia-Lithuania border was in

This is not the first instance of drones being used for smuggling - previously, a fixed-wing drone carrying cigarettes across the Russia-Lithuania border was intercepted in May 2014: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/russians-capture-cigarette-smuggling-drone/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/russians-capture-... (Plus the April 2014 US case mentioned in the parent article)