Posted on 09/18/2008 7:19:14 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
KEY WEST, Fla. -- The U.S. Coast Guard discovered 7 tons of cocaine on a homemade submarine that featured sophisticated navigation equipment.
Coast Guard officials said the apparent Colombian drug runners were taken by surprise on the 70-foot vessel.
The sub was stuffed with $187 million worth of drugs.
Four people were taken into custody in international waters.
The vessel and the people aboard were on their way to Key West Thursday.
The bust happened off the coast of Costa Rica after a U.S. Navy airplane spotted the sub.
ROTFL .... “they’ll never spot us in a sub”.
A homemade submarine and 7 tons of coke was how I planned to spend my weekend.
Owl_Eagle
There are people who are surrounded by bigots
and know it is wrong, but are afraid to be vocal against it.
These people are going to pull the lever for Obama
and they are not being polled.
angee_is_mad, DUmmy
Some drug lord is going to be POed!!
I'm not up on legal matters, but this surprises me. Who has jurisdiction in "international waters"? This sounds like piracy or privateering to board a ship at sea and take the contents, while holding the crew prisoner.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not a libertarian and I do support the war on drugs -- but I would have thought that the ship would have to be in territorial waters before being seized.
Unidentified submarines in American coastal waters should be sunk on sight, no questions asked.
There went 0bama’s supply...
Oh man, forgot about those infrared sensors did you ... LOL.
Lots of dead al Qaeda have gone before. Glad to see the terror hunters are protecting the borders.
No, really.
(2) This values a gram of uncut cocaine at $28.
Has the price of cocaine been dropping?
If you’re taken in INternational waters then what is the charge against them? I mean is it against US law to have cocaine in international waters. Sounds like we stole their sub and contents. Why not track them until they’re in OUR waters?
SOSUS in action
AND The Coast Guard is despirately trying to get a law that prohibits non-flagged semi-submersable vessles from international waters.
There is an immediate solution for these international pirates. A few well placed 50 CAL rounds will sink and permenantly elimenate these international navigation hazards. No bio hazard.
~~Ding!
“All that cocaine is for personal use....we’re not smugglers.”
Perhaps Barrio-made is a better attribution. A diesel motor / fuel / Garmon nuvi / all wrapped in fiberglass with some pipes and some crazy pendejos.
MacGyver, that you that put that homemade sub together?
That’s the price for mexicans....what? You didn’t know there is a different price for Huero?
If the US believes that a vessel in international waters is on a course for the US with the intention of violating US waters or committing crimes against the US, it will be intercepted by US authorities.
If the government of which the interceptees are citizens have a problem with that, they can protest or take it to the international courts.
This sounds like piracy or privateering to board a ship at sea and take the contents, while holding the crew prisoner.
The motive is not profit and the cargo is illegal anywhere the crew were headed. In every possible jurisdiction the crew could have reached, they were in the commission of a felony.
Do you really want all those whales and dolphins dancing naked on the beach after it sinks?
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