But a group of Mexican drug runners recently applied an 8th-century approach to their profession, using a homemade, trailer-mounted catapult to hurl bales of marijuana over the border. Gizmodo ...

U.S. Border Patrol said a catapult mounted to the Arizona-Mexico border fence, and used to throw bundles of marijuana across, is the first one of its kind that agents in the area have encountered.

Build a 50-foot fence — and drug smugglers will attach a catapult to it. On Friday, border agents dismantled a drug-launching machine that had been affixed to the border fence just east of Douglas.

On January 26, Mexican soldiers seized a nine-foot-tall, trailer-mounted catapult that hurled four-and-a-half-pound marijuana packets over the Arizona border. ...

US border patrol agents have found a medieval-style catapult mounted on the border wall with Mexico, designed to launch bundles of drugs into the US. The device was discovered last week, southeast ...