PHOTOS: 26 tons of cocaine worth $715M seized in Pacific

Associated Press ^ | December 15, 2016

[ConservativeStatement]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida -- More than 26 tons of cocaine worth at least $715 million was brought ashore Thursday in Florida following multiple recent seizures by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Navy in the eastern Pacific.

Coast Guard officers said at a news conference Thursday that the drugs brought to Fort Lauderdale came from 27 separate vessel interdictions and five bale recovery operations off Central and South America over the past three months.

[snarkytart]

Oh yea, forgot about them. Poor degenerates.

[plain talk]

... the drugs brought to Fort Lauderdale came from 27 separate vessel interdictions and five bale recovery operations off Central and South America over the past three months.

[ConservativeMind]

This feels like deja vu, because a different drug story from about two years ago, again about Florida, said “Pacific,” then, too.

Bizarre.

[ConservativeMind]

Last time I checked, Central and South America are on both oceans.

[Wingy]

Last time I checked, Central and South America are on the Pacific. The drugs were seized there then taken to Fort Lauderdale.

Yes they were taken to Florida for distribution to Northeast US cities that will pay top dollar. See? Now everybody is happy!

[jonrick46]

If this is just one interdiction, think about how much more cocaine is getting through.

[jonrick46]

That appears to be 55 pallets of cocaine. This poison is coming in this country like import cars. Countries shipping it out are rich with the dollars coming in from the sales.

[Fiji Hill]

Cocaine Blues--Luke Jordan (1927)

Cocaine Habit Blues--The Memphis Jug Band (1930)

Junker Blues--Champion Jack Dupree (1941)

[Kadric]

I believe if you check a map you’ll find they are both bordered by both. Atlantic on the East and Pacific on the west.

[ConservativeStatement]

So baby, here’s your ticket
Put the suitcase in your hand
Here’s a little money now
Do it just the way we planned

You be cool for twenty hours
And I’ll pay you twenty grand
I’m sorry it went down like this
And someone had to lose

It’s the nature of the business
It’s the smuggler’s blues

[Ken H]

Expect shortages of cocaine all over the US soon. /s

[diogenes ghost]

"If this is just one interdiction...."

Article says 27 interdictions and 5 bale drops.

[super7man]

And the ships the drugs were on? What happened to them?

[Alas Babylon!]

Man, you gotta have a YUGE nose for all that toot!!!

[heterosupremacist]

Re : Post #34

[Big Red Badger]

26 tons and what do You Get?
Another day older and deeper in debt!

[Noob1999]

Wonder how much skim off the top happened in the three months before all this nose junk was turned over in Florida???

[Figment]

Must have come through the Panama canal

[Liaison]

Looks like a days worth of drugs for NYC

[NativeSon]

Well, I was excited about this here cup of coffee but now, not so much. #boogerSugar #waffleDust