A shocking video shows brazen thugs flying a drone over a Dublin prison - and dropping suspected drugs into the yard. The Irish Mirror has obtained the video, which shows someone filming the screen of a tablet-like device that is being used to control a drone flying over Wheatfield Prison. We have also confirmed that prison bosses and gardai have launched separate investigations into the video, which is believed to have been filmed on Wednesday.
A shocking video shows brazen thugs flying a drone over a Dublin prison - and dropping suspected drugs into the yard. The Irish Mirror has obtained the video, which shows someone filming the screen of a tablet-like device that is being used to control a drone flying over Wheatfield Prison. We have also confirmed that prison bosses and gardai have launched separate investigations into the video, which is believed to have been filmed on Wednesday.
The video shows the device hovering over one of the yards before it drops its payload of thin canisters inside a bottle to the prisoners below. The exact coordinates of the prison are seen on the screen of the tablet, while in another clip seen by this paper, the same person showed off a large bottle containing the suspected drugs, that were then attached to the device. In the video the tablet-like device shows a clear aerial view of the prison yard - before the bottle is dropped from a height and lands directly below, where a prisoner can then be seen running towards it. Sources say the apparent drugs seen in the clip have been wrapped up in what is now a common smuggling method - where a weight is applied to the bottom of each of them so that when dropped, they drop vertically straight through a net placed above the yar
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