The Cochise County Sheriff's Office is testing what it calls innovative hybrid drones designed to enhance law enforcement capabilities along the southern border, despite federal reports showing decreased illegal border crossings.

Officials with Customs and Border Protection say encounters with illegal border crossers are down, but that's not what CCSO deputies say they are seeing on the ground in Cochise County.

"We're still reporting 250 to 300 illegal crossers a month, full head-to-toe camouflage, all military males, all coming across the hardest parts of our deserts. That's still an issue that we still have to go after," Tim Williams with Special Operations at the Cochise County Sheriff's Office said.

This ongoing challenge is why the sheriff's office partnered with Dragonfly, a dron

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