Expensive rugs.
Posted on 08/26/2025 8:18:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
Someone in the cartel is in trouble.
The U.S. Coast Guard, in partnership with the Department of Defense, seized over 75,000 pounds of illegal narcotics.
The value of the rugs is estimated to be nearly $500 million.
Most of the drugs were seized near the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
The Washington Examiner reported more in-depth details about the drug seizure:
The Coast Guard seized more than 75,000 pounds of illegal narcotics, valued at $473 million, from late June to mid-August, the service announced on Monday.
The 76,140-pound haul, which was obtained in 19 different interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, included nearly 16,000 pounds of marijuana and more than 60,000 pounds of cocaine, the largest offload of the drug by the Coast Guard.
“The U.S. Coast Guard in partnership with our federal, DoD, and international partners are offloading 61,740 pounds of cocaine and this represents a significant victory in the fight against transnational criminal organizations, highlighting our unwavering commitment to safeguarding the nation from illicit trafficking and its devastating impacts,” said Rear Adm. Adam Chamie, Coast Guard Southeast District commander.
The Coast Guard announced last week that it launched Operation Pacific Viper, a surge of forces in the Eastern Pacific to cut off drug and human smuggling before it reaches the United States. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the operation involves the “surging maritime interdictions in the Eastern Pacific to stop the cartels and criminal organizations.”
The operation’s first interdiction, included in the announcement, occurred on June 26. A maritime patrol aircraft spotted two vessels roughly 115 miles from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, and seized more than 4,475 pounds of cocaine. The next day, another patrol aircraft spotted a vessel slightly further from the islands and seized 4,354 pounds of cocaine.
NBC New York reported it was the largest drug offload in the U.S. Coast Guard’s History:
“Today we are witness to the largest drug offload in Coast Guard history, a total of 76,140 pounds of illegal narcotics,” U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Adam Chamie said. “These men and women put themselves in harm’s way time and again to stop the bad guys, apprehend the smugglers and seize the drugs. This is grueling and dangerous work, and I am extremely proud of them.”
Pallet by pallet, members of the Coast Guard removed the drugs, which were seized over a period of several months. The U.S. Coast Guard offloads drugs at Port Everglades on Aug. 25, 2025.
The seizure included more than 61,000 pounds of cocaine and more than 15,000 pounds of marijuana. “The 61,740 pounds of cocaine represent 23 million potentially lethal doses, that’s enough to fatally overdose the entire population of the state of Florida,” Chamie said.
Footage released by the Coast Guard on Monday showed a person on a small boat tossing bundles overboard while being pursued and caught by crew from the Cutter Hamilton.
Watch the press conference below:
VIDEO AT LINK......................
Good times. Damned good times. I used to be involved with these busts. 217 of them as a matter of fact.
My late uncle retired from The Coast Guard.........
Sell it to China and use it to pay down the debt.
“61,000 pounds of cocaine”
-
That’s a lotta toot. 😏
Who will then try to re-import it.
Where it will again be seized.
Resold to China…..
The trade deficit erased in no time at all.
They’ll just ship it right back..................
“61,000 pounds of cocaine”
-
That’s a lotta toot. 😏
Richard Pryor (on Leon Spinks): Do you hear me, a dollar and fifty cents worth of cocaine. Have you ever sen a dollar and fifty cents worth of cocaine? A dollar and fifty cents worth of cocaine melts before you open the paper. You’ve got to have a ballistics expert on the spot to examine that kind of ____. And people always say ‘well how did he get busted for a dollar and fifty cents worth of cocaine?’ I have a theory. Would you like to hear it?
Audience: Yes!
Richard Pryor: If you buy a dollar and fifty cents worth of cocaine from any cocaine dealer in America, HE’S gonna tell on your ass!
They’ll either ship either new stuff or the old stuff either way.
Either crime has really ramped up or else SOMEONE has been asleep at the switch for a LONG time!!!
Does the mafia still run the port? Hopefully the stash is well guarded.
This is how the cartel pays off the government. We government squeezes, the cartel provides value.
Age old trick. Funny how the captured inventory and funds are not ever accounted. Imagine that why don’t ya!!
Now Trump Administration is shutting down the sea lanes.
This is what happen when you have a President and country that actually is serious about shutting down the drug traffic instead of paying lip service while taking bribes under the tables from the cartels.
First USAID and firing government workers who are paid Democrat operatives with no show jobs, and now shutting down the drug cartels, Trump is hitting the wallets of this political opposition.
In Washington, if you want to get things done you don't drain the swamp, you cut the funding.
. President Trump just shut down at least 50 million in cartel bribe money that would have went to corrupt politicians and public officials with this operation.
Now Trump Administration is shutting down the sea lanes.
This is what happen when you have a President and country that actually is serious about shutting down the drug traffic instead of paying lip service while taking bribes under the tables from the cartels.
First USAID and firing government workers who are paid Democrat operatives with no show jobs, and now shutting down the drug cartels, Trump is hitting the wallets of this political opposition.
In Washington, if you want to get things done you don't drain the swamp, you cut the funding.
. President Trump just shut down at least 50 million in cartel bribe money that would have went to corrupt politicians and public officials with this operation.
I would vigorously support the same law here in the US.
Paging Tyrone Biggums for the 5 oclock crack giveaway.
A few headless bodies will soon be swinging from a bridge.
>> The value of the rugs is estimated to be nearly $500 million. <<
Must be nice rugs.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.