CRIMINALS ARE DELIVERING drugs and weapons to inmates using drones with burning packages slung beneath them in order to burn through the netting covering prison yards, sources have told The Journal.
The new method has been spotted around Mountjoy and Wheatfield Prisons in Dublin recently.
The drones are flown from nearby roads and fields with the burning packages carried beneath the remote-controlled craft.
Sources said that in many cases the packages slung below the drones had a flammable substance on the exterior that burned through the netting, concealing a smaller capsule or package inside containing the contraband.
Once the net has been burned through, prisoners below pick up the delivery.
Netting has been placed across yards in many of the country’s prisons in order to prevent drugs or weapons from being thrown over. They’re usually made of a heavy duty material, but with small holes like a fishing net.
The use of …