[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I wonder what the street value is.

[Crazieman]

Several hundred million, I would imagine.

[misterrob]

Druggie Libertarians are deeply saddened

[End Times Sentinel]

Seems like more trouble than its worth, smuggling cocaine across the ocean. It'd be a whole lot easier just to get some illegal to carry it across the border.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

[LetsRok]

These boats should be blown out of the water with their crew.

[RSmithOpt]

Well, let's assume best retail scenario: If sold by the gram:

8.1 tons X 2000 lbs/ton X 16 oz./lb. X 28 gms/oz. X $80/gm =

$580,608,000.

But, street value would most likely be half of that.

[Jeff Head]

GO NAVY!

[MAD-AS-HELL]

8.1 tons confiscated as 100 tons comes in undetected. End the war on drugs. Legalize it. Regulate it. Take away the allure of it. It will bring the price down and then you'll end the crime associated with cartels and hit a very imporants funding source for Terrorists as they won't be able to profit from it as much as they are now. But, we never learn from what we experienced from Prohibition.

[b4its2late]

Wow. That's good. It's going to hurt either terrorists, drug lords or both.

[Jeff Head]

[navyblue]

I'm thinkin that one 3 inch round could have made that chase a lot shorter.

[GingisK]

“It is really rare to capture a fully-fuelled 'go-fast' in a flat-out chase...

Rockets would really help.

[livius]

Wow! My son was a navigator on an AWACS plane, and a guy on the crew happened to notice (from way up there) that a ship passing by at the mouth of SF Bay had new rivets. The CG dropped on it, and sure enough, the deck had new rivets because the panels had been lifted to install mucho bucks worth of drugs beneath.

[Revolting cat!]

Tomorrow's headline today:

Grove Grunts Groove!

[meandog]

Dang! Sailors have all the fun!

[CholeraJoe]

Piracy on the High Seas AND a violation of the "Posse Comitatus" Act.

I know, I know. Since it was passed no one has ever been prosecuted under the Posse Comitatus act.

[4yearlurker]

My wife's nephew is 20 years old and totally messed up on coke,crack and heroin. He is currently in the hospital under suicide watch. This kid just sucks the life out of anyone he comes in contact with. The things he says to his mother is unbelievable. She is a wreck. Send all this cocaine crap to the bottom of the ocean along with the boats crew. This sh!t is EVIL!

[GretchenM]

I was curious about the ship. I make no claims for accuracy but here's what I found online.

http://www.groves.navy.mil/reptabrd.htm

SHIP'S HISTORY:

“About 4:4 P.M. the enemy was coming in fast, and the carrier sent up its few remaining planes, some already battle-scarred. They headed straight for the enemy. The fight ended at sunset, when the last remaining Japanese plane was shot from the sky. Some of our boys did not return, but they left a memory that time can never dim.”

Thus read an official account of one of the great air engagements of the Battle of Midway during World War II. Stephen W. Groves, a 25-year-old Navy Ensign from East Millinocket, Maine, was one of the American flyers who did not return after the day-long battle on June 4, 1942. Other historical accounts of the battle show that Ensign Groves took off nine times from his carrier on that fateful day and that he was one of six American planes that fought off a vastly superior Japanese force that was trying to finish off the damaged carrier Yorktown. The small group was credited with shooting down 14 enemy planes and causing six others to retreat. For his deeds in the crucial battle, the young Maine flyer was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism. His citation reads:

“For extraordinary heroism and distinguished service as pilot of a fighter plane in action against enemy Japanese forces in the ‘Air Battle of Midway’ on June 4, 1942. With grim disregard for the hazardous consequence of his act, Ensign Groves plunged into aerial combat against a large group of enemy aircraft which was harassing our carriers. Contributing decisively to the disruption of threatening enemy formations, he pressed home a determined and vigorous counterattack against desperate odds until, finally overcome by sheer aerial superiority, he was shot down from the skies. By his courageous devotion to the fulfillment of a vastly important mission, he aided greatly in the victory achieved by our forces and conducted himself in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.”

The commissioning of the guided missile frigate Stephen W. Groves (FFG 29) demonstrates that time did not dim the memory of this American hero, and in effect, fulfills a promise the Navy made to the Groves family shortly after the ensign was declared missing in action. A destroyer, being constructed in Boston, was to have been named for Groves, but it was scrapped when the war ended. Ensign Groves was a 1934 graduate of Schenck High School in East Millinocket and received a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Maine in 1939. He joined the Navy in December of 1940 and was commissioned in August of 1941. He boarded the carrier USS HORNET in December of that year. The HORNET began to transport Doolittle’s Bombers to Japanese Waters in April of 1942, setting the stage for the Battle of Midway, considered one of the most crucial allied victories of the war.

Ensign Groves was the first East Millinocket serviceman to be killed in World War II. Today the American Legion Post in the town is named the Feeney-Groves Post, partially in his memory.

[TKDietz]

These are the kinds of busts that make a difference in that they keep the street prices higher than they could be. We fill up our prisons with guys who had little tiny amounts, and it does us no good at all except in the few cases where those we put in prison for drugs are also really bad people who commit a lot of serious crimes aside from their involvement with drugs. When we put a 200,000 druggies in prison for selling a gram or less to their druggie buddies who had gotten busted and are working with police to keep themselves out of prison, we've not even budged the price of drugs though or even done anything to keep prices from dropping. Seize tons and tons of drugs and that makes a difference, at least in keeping the cost of these drugs so high that people aren't sharing them so much with their friends, so that less try them, and those that have tried them are less likely to do them so much and so often that they are bound to become addicted.

[Hot Tabasco]

I'm assuming a "go fast" is another name for offshore speedboat? if so, those things can fly so how can the Groves possibly catch them?????

[RichInOC]

While on patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in early August, Stephen W. Groves took down a “go fast” loaded with an estimated 2.6 metric tons of cocaine...

"Cocaine's a hell of a drug."