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Coast Guard intercepts narco-sub with 5,000 pounds of cocaine worth $69M
Fox News ^ | November 16, 2019 | Robert Gearty

Posted on 11/16/2019 2:10:28 PM PST by familyop

"Boarding teams from the cutter deployed in interceptor boats and stopped the suspected smuggling vessel just before midnight,"..."The boarding teams took control of the vessel before the four suspected smugglers aboard could sink the craft using installed scuttling valves."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: dopefiends; drugs; seaurchins; zombies
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You Belong In The Sea (To Tune Of Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WDEpx48gtA

1 posted on 11/16/2019 2:10:28 PM PST by familyop
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“Disco Is Dead” (original)
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2 posted on 11/16/2019 2:14:32 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

I wish they would show pictures of the sub.


3 posted on 11/16/2019 2:18:36 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: familyop

They should just sink them with little fanfare.


4 posted on 11/16/2019 2:26:03 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: familyop

Perfect story for a movie, “The Cocaine Mutiny” (”I’m going to find those dusted strawberries!”)


5 posted on 11/16/2019 2:27:20 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: familyop; Fred Nerks; little jeremiah; rx

Did they find a woman with the surname Fuddy on that sub?


6 posted on 11/16/2019 2:33:20 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: chajin

As he rolls three little heroin balls in his hands.


7 posted on 11/16/2019 2:33:53 PM PST by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: familyop

Coast Guard intercepts narco-sub with 5,000 pounds of cocaine worth $69M

“And to think I wasted all that money for two-day Prime shipping!!”
- Hunter Biden


8 posted on 11/16/2019 2:41:19 PM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: Waverunner

Muttering, “I got waxed.”


9 posted on 11/16/2019 2:49:17 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Ouderkirk

Agreed.
No flag....sink the sucker.
Target practice.


10 posted on 11/16/2019 2:56:42 PM PST by ptsal
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To: familyop

That is a cool headline.


11 posted on 11/16/2019 2:58:47 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Candor7

Ah, fuddy-duddy!!! I’m sure she continued on her journey into the next life a long time ago!


12 posted on 11/16/2019 3:06:05 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: familyop

This tells us a cartel can afford to lose 69 million.
Apple, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates think they’re rich...


13 posted on 11/16/2019 3:08:27 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: familyop

Was it headed to Hunter Biden’s house?


14 posted on 11/16/2019 3:13:32 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

There’s a picture of one of the so-called submarines from a previous bust here.

Coast Guard intercepts undersea vessel carrying $165M of cocaine
September 24
https://www.foxnews.com/us/coast-guard-takes-down-sub-carrying-165-million-of-cocaine


15 posted on 11/16/2019 3:40:16 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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A haul in October from various interdictions. There have been many others recently.

Coast Guard offloads $377 million worth of cocaine, marijuana in South Florida
https://www.foxnews.com/us/coast-guard-offloads-cocaine-marijuana-southeast-florida


16 posted on 11/16/2019 3:44:09 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

There are some pictures here from an interdiction in July.

Video shows dramatic jump by Coast Guardsmen onto vessel laden with cocaine: officials
https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-shows-dramatic-jump-by-guardsmen-onto-vessel-laden-with-cocaine-officials


17 posted on 11/16/2019 3:47:12 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

Back when I lived in South Florida.
the drug smugglers used ‘cigarette boats’,
that could simply outrun the Coast guard.
(...but they had to come into port sometime...)


18 posted on 11/16/2019 3:49:13 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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Related news from a couple of days ago (no pictures of semi-submersibles, though)

CBP chief warns Mexican ‘super labs’ flooding US with meth, as seizures nearly double
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cbp-chief-warns-of-mexican-super-labs


19 posted on 11/16/2019 3:50:18 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Ouderkirk

“They should just sink them with little fanfare.”

The Cartels would go NUTS if that happened...they’d be sure that the sub crew was running away with the goods.


20 posted on 11/16/2019 3:51:48 PM PST by BobL (I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
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