If you think the mobile phone explosion of recent years has somehow been kept at bay by prison walls, you would be greatly mistaken. Technology, like water, permeates every crack. Today on Lockdown, we’re talking phones in jail. More »
Smugglers in China will go to great lengths to get their contraband like mobile phones into and out of the country. In the past, they’ve used housewives and even crossbows and pulleys. This latest operation used gas cylinders. More »
We need to consider, as a society, that we’ve run out of decent ways to smuggle cocaine. I say this because David Pocasangre Vaquiz was arrested outside DC with $US10,000 worth of coke stuffed into 80 clams. Clams. More »
It was a red letter day for the TSA last Thursday. The security officials at Miami International Airport managed to apprehend a man trying to sneak seven snakes and three tortoises in his pants on a plane heading to Brazil. More »
According to China publication Apple Times, the Chinese government has installed surveillance devices on up to 20,000 cars with dual China/Hong Kong plates, claiming the tags are just for inspection. However, they have the capability to pickup and transmit conversations. More »
Drug laws are stupid. You can’t stop people from using drugs, or smuggling them into the country. And now, in addition to overground, underground, and aquatic crossings, smugglers are flying ultralights to ferry pot over the U.S.-Mexico border. More »
Last week, at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport, security officials stopped a 60-year-old woman who had been moving erratically through airport security. She said she was feeling sick. Not true! She actually had 44 iPhone 4s stuffed down her pants. More »
It’s not pretty, but this hole in the ground is the sign of an expert drug smuggler. It’s part of a 180 metre tunnel under the California-Mexico border and it connects a warehouse in Tijuana with one in San Diego. More »
