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Coast Guard offloads $330 million (3300 kilos) of seized cocaine in Miami
Posted on 4/15/14 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 4/15/14 at 3:54 pm
another day in the Mi-yayo
better link
better link
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Officers searched the boat but turned up nothing. Just a short while after leaving however the boat caught fire, and the Coast Guard found 2,400 kilos, or 97 bales, of cocaine floating in the water.
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The second shipment was detained after the USCGC Legare tracked down a go-fast boat from Colombia. The boat refused to stop, so a USCG helicopter had to take out its engine from above. About $30 million was found aboard that vessel. Five men were taken into custody.
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The drugs, now offloaded by the Legare, will be destroyed.
This post was edited on 4/15/14 at 3:58 pm
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Posted on 4/15/14 at 3:56 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
As a direct contributor to the expidentures of the USCG, I demand a portion of the haul. For scientific purposes, of course.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 3:56 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
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go-fast boat
I bet.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 3:57 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
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Officers searched the boat but turned up nothing
really?
Posted on 4/15/14 at 3:57 pm to LSUballs
And this is not legal because?
Posted on 4/15/14 at 3:57 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
shite. Now what am I supposed to do about my kid's bar mitzvah?
Posted on 4/15/14 at 3:58 pm to HempHead
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For scientific purposes, of course
Nobody likes cocaine but it smells good.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 3:59 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
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quote: The drugs, now offloaded by the Legare, will be destroyed.
Well that doesn't seem nice. Isn't the gov't hurting for revenue? There's 330 million that could be put to the deficit.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:00 pm to Gugich22
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really?
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – One hundred and ten million dollars worth of cocaine was offloaded by the U.S. Coast at their Miami Beach base Tuesday morning. The more than 7,000 pounds of cocaine was brought in by Coast Guard Cutter Legare, seized in two different interdictions in the Caribbean. “One of the larger busts that the Coast Guard has brought in in recent memory,” Lt. Meaghan Gies with the U.S. Coast Guard. The first seizure happened on March 15th, when a Coast Guard detachment on a Canadian ship searched a fishing boat from Panama and at first found nothing. “After the boarding, the fishing vessel actually caught on fire so the Coast Guard detachment vessel pulled off all six crew members,” said Lt. Gies. The rescued crew members were being taken to safety in Jamaica, when millions worth of cocaine were found floating in the water. “During that transit they then located 97 bales of suspected contraband that was afloat in the water,” said Lt. Gies. Four days later, Coast Guard crew members intercepted a suspected smuggling go-fast boat from Cartagena, Colombia on its way to the U.S. The Coast Guard helicopter shot out the boat’s engine. “Helicopter employed warning shots and then disabled the vessel,” said Lt. Gies. “They discovered there was over 900 kilograms of suspected contraband.” The wholesale value of the seized cocaine is about $110 million, but the drugs are worth triple that amount if sold on the streets. “This is the main goal of the Coast Guard, to stop this bulk contraband, this bulk cocaine from coming in and further deteriorating the crime and the violence in South Florida,” said Lt. Gies. The five suspected smugglers on the go-fast boat were taken back to Colombia to face prosecution. The drugs will be turned over to the DEA and destroyed. The Coast Guard did not find enough evidence to prove the cocaine found floating in the water came from the Panamanian boat, so the crew members were dropped off in Jamaica. The Coast Guard says since October 2013, they have interdicted more than 14,700 kilograms of cocaine worth nearly $500 million.
This post was edited on 4/15/14 at 4:02 pm
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:01 pm to Lakeboy7
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Nobody likes cocaine but it smells good.
I blow it up ladies' butts so their turd canal can be plowed without a plethora of pain.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:07 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
$100,000 a kilo? Ya right! 
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:08 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
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$330 million
quote:uhhh no
3300
not even close
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:08 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
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2,400 kilos, or 97 bales, of cocaine floating in the water.
That's a shitload of nose candy
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:09 pm to lsu480
I was wondering how they figured "street value"
Are they breaking it down by the gram? How much would that come out to per kilo?
Are they breaking it down by the gram? How much would that come out to per kilo?
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:09 pm to lsu480
I bet those guys went to South Beach that night, got some high end arse and were all like
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:10 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
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Coast Guard offloads $330 million (3300 kilos) of seized cocaine in Miami
Well frick...there goes my Jazzfest late night schedule
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:10 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
I think they break it up into the smallest possible amount. For weed I'm sure they break it up into nickel bags.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:14 pm to lsu480
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$100,000 a kilo? Ya right!
This is pure and uncut cocaine. The actual completion of the process (cutting to usable strength) before distribution would multiply the actual weight used to obtain the street value estimation.
Drug interdiction, while fun, is pretty pointless. It's all about basic supply and demand.
This post was edited on 4/15/14 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 4/15/14 at 4:18 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
$100,000 a kilo?
Lmao
That's some huge inflation, about 8 yrs ago you could get one for $22,000 all day, every day.
Thanks Obama
Lmao
That's some huge inflation, about 8 yrs ago you could get one for $22,000 all day, every day.
Thanks Obama
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