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Four people were arrested in connection with a plot to use a toy chopper to smuggle cell phones into a Brazilian prison. A three-foot model remote-controlled helicopter loaded with a cargo of cell phones was discovered in a vehicle near the Presidente Venceslau correctional facility in San Paolo. The smugglers had reportedly been offered a total of $10K to deliver the cell phones to prisoners waiting inside. The attempt comes on the heels of a failed plot to use carrier pigeons to deliver the cell phones.  In the boot of the vehicle they found the one-metre long model helicopter with a basket-like container attached to its base.
Inside were nine mobile phones wrapped in a disposable nappy, while another five phones were also discovered in the vehicle.
Four suspects were arrested, and the youngest, who was aged just 17, is reported to have confessed they had been given $5,000 to buy and prepare the helicopter.
They were apparently to be paid the same amount if they had successfully landed…
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