CYPRUS: Smugglers use drone to fly drugs over UN-patrolled ceasefire line

Smugglers used a drone to fly drugs over the 180-kilometre UN-patrolled ceasefire from the south of the island to the Turkish-held north, Turkish Cypriot media reported.

Turkish Cypriot authorities arrested a suspect alleged to have taken delivery of narcotics from a drone which had taken off from government-controlled Nicosia in the south, the Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris reported.
The amount or type of drug that was seized was not disclosed.
Drugs were loaded onto a drone, flown across the buffer zone and landed in an empty field in north Nicosia where they were picked up by the suspect earlier in August.
A court in the north was told that Turkish Cypriot police had received a tip-off about the unusual drug delivery and set up a sting operation in the area where the drugs were expected to arrive.
Surveillance footage, used as evidence in court, showed the suspect collecting the package, placing it in his car, and leaving the scene.
Neither Cyprus police nor the United Nations have commented on the issue.