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RECORD SEIZURE IN COCAINE UNLOADED
The Miami Herald ^ | 6 Nove 2004 | Newsbrief

Posted on 11/06/2004 10:36:22 PM PST by CWOJackson

KEY WEST

More than 37 tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of $2.3 billion was hauled off a Navy frigate Friday, adding to a record year of seizures as part of a joint effort to stop drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific.

The 75,000 pounds of white powder is from five separate seizures at sea between Aug. 31 and Sept. 26, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement.

The largest cocaine discovery in the history of Coast Guard's East Coast operations was made Sept. 17 when a Coast Guard detachment from the frigate, the USS Curts, found 30,000 pounds -- 15 tons -- on the fishing vessel Lina Maria about 300 miles west of the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

On Sept. 23, a Coast Guard team aboard the USS Crommelin discovered about 26,775 pounds of cocaine aboard the fishing vessel San Jose roughly 650 miles southwest of the Galapagos.

That was the third largest such find in the history of Operation Panama Express, a joint effort between the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa, the Coast Guard, Immigration of Customs Enforcement, Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and the Navy.

Thirty-one people were arrested in the five boardings and will face prosecution in federal court in Tampa.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cocaine; drugs; wod; wodlist
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1 posted on 11/06/2004 10:36:23 PM PST by CWOJackson
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about 300 miles west of the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Do we have jurisdiction there? If not, did we have permission to board a vessel on the high seas from her captain or the Country of Registry?

2 posted on 11/06/2004 10:39:39 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: CWOJackson

First Bush gets reelected. Now this. It sucks to be a criminal these days.


3 posted on 11/06/2004 10:40:19 PM PST by Asclepius (protectionists would outsource our dignity and prosperity in return for illusory job security)
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To: CWOJackson

AQ??


4 posted on 11/06/2004 10:41:33 PM PST by GeronL (Congratulations Bush on your re-election VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: clee1

International waters belong to nobody, we SHOULD take it all over and make all the oceans US property... heh


5 posted on 11/06/2004 10:42:12 PM PST by GeronL (Congratulations Bush on your re-election VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: CWOJackson

man, not only did Kerry lose, but now the Hollywood libs have been deprived of their means to snort away thier sorrows...

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
:)


6 posted on 11/06/2004 10:42:45 PM PST by BullDawg28
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Somebody that knew a lot was doing some serious talking.

The Fed reward money for those level of seizures would be mid 7 figures. (each)


7 posted on 11/06/2004 10:43:20 PM PST by wardaddy (The only thing we share with collectivists and ragheads is death.)
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To: CWOJackson

15 tons. That is no dinghy.


8 posted on 11/06/2004 10:43:22 PM PST by The Red Zone (The reason they're trying to starve her isn't because she's dying, but because she isn't. [Supercat])
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"...or the Country of Registry?"

You nailed it in one. When a suspect vessel is spotted permission is obtained through the state department to stop and search them. That permission includes using whatever force necessary to make them comply with your order to stop.

9 posted on 11/06/2004 10:44:43 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: wardaddy

However it came about..... good news!


10 posted on 11/06/2004 10:44:48 PM PST by Just Lori (Decency, strength, and integrity have triumphed!)
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To: clee1
That was the third largest such find in the history of Operation Panama Express, a joint effort between the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa, the Coast Guard, Immigration of Customs Enforcement, Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and the Navy.

Apparently so. And 37+ tons is a lot of cocaine. Somebody on the shipping end is going to be very unhappy.

11 posted on 11/06/2004 10:44:50 PM PST by xJones
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HONOLULU — 5 NOV 2004. A Honolulu-based Coast Guard cutter seized nearly 5,000 pounds (2,300 kilograms) of cocaine with a street value of $43 million near the Galapagos Islands, officials said.

A helicopter deployed with the cutter Rush noticed a Colombian-flagged fishing vessel possibly refueling a suspicious speed boat on Sunday, the Coast Guard said Thursday.

When the fast boat tried to flee, the Coast Guard helicopter gave chase and the crew disabled the boat by firing rounds to the engine department, officials said.

A Coast Guard team boarded the boat and seized 91 bales of cocaine, weighing more than 4,800 pounds (2,175 kilograms).

The Navy frigate Halyburton intercepted the fishing vessel Aventurero and its seven crew members on Monday.

The 12 detained crewmen from the fishing vessel and the speed boat — 11 Colombians and one Mexican — were being held aboard the Halyburton.

Both the fishing vessel and the speed boat were cited as hazards to navigation and destroyed.

The Galapagos Islands are 620 miles west of Ecuador.

12 posted on 11/06/2004 10:46:18 PM PST by CWOJackson
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what a terrible week for democrats...


13 posted on 11/06/2004 10:49:22 PM PST by Citizen James (Notorious G.O.P.)
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This is great, Jackson. This is cutting off an enormous amount of money, not to mention driving Hollywood crazy.


14 posted on 11/06/2004 10:50:20 PM PST by xJones
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To: xJones; Travis McGee; Criminal Number 18F

scores of folks in Colombia will die as they try to ferret out the source of the leak.

quantities this size are probably the Upper Cauca Valley cartel headed by Ivan Urdinola in conjunction with the Cachacos (Bogota)....I'm sure it embarked from Colombia's Pacific coast which is strictly their turf....probably pooled together to share the risk.

but somebody talked....USN and USCG assets do not normally do random patrols that far out without hard intel...that is a mighty big pond compared to the choke points in the Caribbean.


15 posted on 11/06/2004 10:50:46 PM PST by wardaddy (The only thing we share with collectivists and ragheads is death.)
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A Honolulu-based Coast Guard cutter seized nearly 5,000 pounds (2,300 kilograms) of cocaine with a street value of $43 million near the Galapagos Islands, officials said

Nobody lives on those islands. There are, maybe, some scientists studying the animals and a few very lucky tourists.

16 posted on 11/06/2004 10:51:41 PM PST by GeronL (Congratulations Bush on your re-election VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: wardaddy

Those drug lords and/or terrorists will not be happy.


17 posted on 11/06/2004 10:52:14 PM PST by GeronL (Congratulations Bush on your re-election VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: xJones
Somebody on the shipping end is going to be very unhappy.

Very. And I cannot begin to imagine how much "commerce" is effected in the US.
If you break it down into grams - - say $75/gram on the streets of America.....

How many grams are there in 37 tons, anyway?

18 posted on 11/06/2004 10:52:27 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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Marion Barry is deeply saddened.


20 posted on 11/06/2004 10:53:27 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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