A U.S. Coast Guard cutter has seized an apparent narco-submarine carrying more than 5,000 pounds of cocaine worth approximately $69 million during an interdiction operation in the Pacific Ocean.
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The semi-submersible vessel was transporting 2 1/2 tons of cocaine at the time of the Oct. 23 seizure by Coast Guard law
enforcement personnel aboard the Harriet Lane.
The Harriet Lane – a 270-foot medium-endurance cutter commissioned in 1984, operates out of Portsmouth in Virginia.
Boarding teams from the cutter deployed in interceptor boats and stopped the suspected smuggling vessel just before midnight,” the Coast Guard said in a news release Thursday.
“The boarding teams took control of the vessel before the four suspected smugglers aboard could sink the craft using installed scuttling valves.”
The exact location of the bust wasn’t disclosed.
“I am really proud of our crew and the precision and professionalism with which they conducted this interdiction,” said Cmdr. Dorothy Hernaez, Commanding Officer of the Harriet Lane, in the statement. . “It was an all hands on deck effort to properly position the cutter and to safely make the seizure."
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[–] DickTick 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Why would you think this is shocking? This is a relatively small seizure.....
Single shipments of 100's of millions of dollars worth of narcotics cross our borders many many many times per day all over the US... 69mil worth is an absolute joke and, like usual, was probably set up to be busted so as to make a smoke screen for a 10x larger shipment to slide through.....
[–] fogdryer [S] ago
I thought it was big. Little do I know
[–] dotmaster2 ago (edited ago)
like when they made a big deal out of hunting drug king pin Pablo Emilio Escobar
and yet
not one cocaine route was disabled or went down in size
opposite never touch it and drug running went up
when c-a is running drugs and you have a c-a president
not to mention Clintons private mena where no customs was aloud around it
and chines military leader was in charge =Mena, from 1981 to 1985, was indeed one of the centers for international smuggling traffic. According to official l.R.S. and D.E.A. calculations, sworn court testimony, and other corroborative records, the traffic amounted to thousands of kilos of cocaine and heroin and literally hundreds of millions of dollars in drug profits. According to a 1986 letter from the Louisiana attorney general to then U.S. attorney general Edwin Meese, Seal "smuggled between $3 billion and $5 billion of drugs into the U.S."
call these show seizers while nothing stops
imagine what we don't know