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PHOTOS: 26 tons of cocaine worth $715M seized in Pacific
Associated Press ^
| December 15, 2016
Posted on 12/16/2016 7:04:05 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 201612; coastguard; cocaine; drugs
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To: TigersEye
Oh yea, forgot about them. Poor degenerates.
To: 2banana
... 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.
To: 2banana
This feels like deja vu, because a different drug story from about two years ago, again about Florida, said “Pacific,” then, too.
Bizarre.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:30:28 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: dfwgator
Last time I checked, Central and South America are on both oceans.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:32:47 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: dfwgator
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!
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:36:40 PM PST
by
Wingy
To: ConservativeStatement
If this is just one interdiction, think about how much more cocaine is getting through.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:39:09 PM PST
by
jonrick46
(The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
To: heterosupremacist
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.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:48:03 PM PST
by
jonrick46
(The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
To: ConservativeStatement
To: dfwgator
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.
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:52:51 PM PST
by
Kadric
To: Fiji Hill
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
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posted on
12/16/2016 7:55:51 PM PST
by
ConservativeStatement
(Pop culture, media and education too often attempt to brainwash)
To: ConservativeStatement
Expect shortages of cocaine all over the US soon. /s
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posted on
12/16/2016 8:06:13 PM PST
by
Ken H
(Best election ever!)
To: jonrick46
"If this is just one interdiction...."
Article says 27 interdictions and 5 bale drops.
To: ConservativeStatement
And the ships the drugs were on? What happened to them?
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posted on
12/16/2016 8:14:21 PM PST
by
super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: heterosupremacist
Man, you gotta have a YUGE nose for all that toot!!!
To: Alas Babylon!
Re : Post #34
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posted on
12/16/2016 8:30:25 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: ConservativeStatement
26 tons and what do You Get?
Another day older and deeper in debt!
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posted on
12/16/2016 8:54:18 PM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: plain talk
Wonder how much skim off the top happened in the three months before all this nose junk was turned over in Florida???
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posted on
12/16/2016 10:55:37 PM PST
by
Noob1999
To: 2banana
Must have come through the Panama canal
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posted on
12/17/2016 1:16:13 AM PST
by
Figment
To: ConservativeStatement
Looks like a days worth of drugs for NYC
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posted on
12/17/2016 4:36:41 AM PST
by
Liaison
(TANSTAAFL)
To: heterosupremacist
Well, I was excited about this here cup of coffee but now, not so much. #boogerSugar #waffleDust
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:06:13 AM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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