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| High Seas: US and Netherlands authorities intercept 8,500 pounds of cocaine worth $245m and arrest 13 drug smugglers during 45-day sting operation in the Caribbean Sea |
| 2022-04-05 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] More than four tons of cocaine has been intercepted on ships smuggling narcotics in the Caribbean during a 45-day sting operation led by the US Coast Guard, officials said. At least 13 suspected drug smugglers from Colombia and the Dominican Republic were arrested in 11 incidents involving the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dauntless and the HNLMS Friedland of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The Coast Guard was unable to say where the cocaine was being smuggled to and from after it offloaded the drugs at a Miami port. The arrests come six weeks after the Coast Guard cutter James dropped off 30 tons of cocaine and marijuana worth over $1 billion at Port Everglades in Florida. The 54,500 pounds of cocaine and 15,800 pounds of marijuana offloaded February 17 followed months of interdictions of drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. Coca cultivation in Colombia in 2020 soared to 245,000 hectares (945 square miles), enough to produce 1,010 tons of cocaine, according to the White House’s latest report on harvesting trends in the Andean region. As recently as 2014, potential production was less than half that amount. Production in Peru and Bolivia has also steadily risen. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #11 That's like 490 Hunter paintings. No wonder the appropriation act is going after that cadmium. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-04-05 18:44 |
| #10 What's that, a twelve hour supply chain disruption? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-04-05 18:37 |
| #9 Wait for it... ...... White House / DOJ to announce Hunter has been working "Undercover" to break up the Drug Cartels. 😂. Hey given all the BS we have been fed over the last few years by the LSD's it possible ain't it? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-04-05 14:26 |
| #8 I predict....a Climate Summit. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-04-05 13:29 |
| #7 The CIA is going to be pissed that someone messed with their op. |
| Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-04-05 12:23 |
| #6 The Coast Guard was unable to say where the cocaine was being smuggled to and from after it offloaded the drugs at a Miami port. Clearly for local distribution. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-05 10:30 |
| #5 Honestly, sir! We thought it was just heroin. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-04-05 09:17 |
| #4 You "lost" another ship load of coke, Hunter? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-04-05 09:08 |
| #3 Come on, man! I was just holding it for a friend. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-04-05 09:06 |
| #2 When you lose 27 tons of cocaine in just over a month, the safest place to be is probably in Federal Custody |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-04-05 09:01 |
| #1 Hunter will be down to collect it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-04-05 08:22 |