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Posted on 08/25/2025 5:21:00 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The U.S. Coast Guard achieved a milestone with the offload of a record 76,140 pounds of illicit narcotics, valued at $473 million, at Port Everglades on Monday. This marks the largest quantity of drugs offloaded in Coast Guard history.
Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton’s crew offloaded approximately 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana, preventing an estimated 23 million potential lethal doses from reaching the United States.
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Half a billion dollars worth of drugs???
That’s a crazy amount!!!
Democrat drug addicts and pushers everywhere yell “Orange man bad!”
https://www.atlanticarea.uscg.mil/area-cutters/cgchamilton/
looking at the articles, sometimes the offload is in lbs, sometimes in $.
The seized contraband was the result of 19 interdictions in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
On June 26, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted two suspicious go-fast vessels approximately 115 miles southeast of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Hamilton’s embarked Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron aircrew employed airborne use of force tactics resulting in Hamilton’s boarding team interdicting both vessels, seizing more than 8,800 pounds of cocaine.
On June 27, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 125 miles southeast of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Hamilton’s embarked HITRON aircrew employed airborne use of force tactics allowing Hamilton’s boarding team to interdict the vessel, seizing more than 4,330 pounds of cocaine.
On June 30, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 87 miles north of Bonaire. A Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 408 crew deployed on USS Cole interdicted the vessel, seizing approximately 2,425 pounds of cocaine.
On July 3, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 15 miles north of Aragua, Venezuela. A LEDET 404 crew deployed on the Royal Netherlands Navy ship HNLMS Friesland interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 5,450 pounds of cocaine.
On July 11, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 17 miles northeast of Silva, Venezuela. Friesland’s embarked HITRON aircrew employed airborne use of force tactics, and an embarked LEDET 404 boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing 9,088 pounds of marijuana.
On July 21, Hamilton’s embarked unmanned aircraft system crew spotted suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 600 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. Hamilton’s embarked HITRON aircrew employed airborne use of force tactics, and Hamilton’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 3,395 pounds of cocaine.
On July 23, Hamilton’s crew detected and boarded a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 88 miles southeast of Socorro Island, Mexico. Hamilton’s embarked HITRON aircrew employed airborne use of force tactics, and Hamilton’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 9,160 pounds of cocaine.
On July 25, a maritime patrol aircraft notified Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant’s crew of a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 180 miles south of the Dominican Republic. Vigilant’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 1,410 pounds of cocaine and 80 pounds of marijuana.
On Aug. 2, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 52 miles north of Carabobo, Venezuela. Friesland’s embarked HITRON aircrew employed airborne use of force tactics, and an embarked LEDET 404 boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing 2,615 pounds of marijuana.
On Aug. 2, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 640 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. Hamilton’s embarked HITRON aircrew employed airborne use of force tactics, and Hamilton’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 4,110 pounds of cocaine.
On Aug. 5, Hamilton’s embarked UAS crew detected a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 543 miles southeast of Clipperton Island. Hamilton’s embarked HITRON aircrew employed airborne use of force tactics, and Hamilton’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 4,210 pounds of cocaine.
On Aug. 6, Hamilton’s embarked UAS crew detected a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 625 miles southeast of Clipperton Island. Hamilton’s embarked HITRON aircrew employed airborne use of force tactics, and Hamilton’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 4,375 pounds of cocaine.
On Aug. 7, Coast Guard Cutter Diligence’s crew detected and boarded a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 136 miles southwest of Negril, Jamaica. Diligence’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing 1,500 pounds of marijuana.
On Aug 7, Hamilton’s embarked UAS crew detected a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 750 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. Hamilton’s embarked HITRON aircrew employed airborne use of force tactics, and Hamilton’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 20 pounds of cocaine.
On Aug 7, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 100 miles north of Aruba. A LEDET 108 crew deployed on USS Minneapolis Saint-Paul interdicted the vessel, seizing approximately 2,700 pounds of cocaine.
On Aug 8, Hamilton’s embarked UAS crew detected a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 750 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. Hamilton’s embarked HITRON air crew employed airborne use of force tactics, and Hamilton’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 4,145 pounds of cocaine.
On Aug 15, a maritime patrol aircraft notified Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant’s crew of a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 35 miles southwest of Haiti. Vigilant’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 1,615 pounds of marijuana.
On Aug 18, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 130 miles south of Jamaica. USS Minneapolis Saint-Paul’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing approximately 6,425 pounds of cocaine.
On Aug 18, HNLMS Friesland’s crew detected a suspicious go-fast vessel approximately 20 miles west of Curacao. Friesland’s boarding team seized approximately 700 pounds of cocaine.
The picture of the capture is insane. They say very little is ever caught.
Is it possible to refine any of that stuff so that it can be used for something other than human injestion? Can it be used as the base ingredient for some friggin pesticide or something?
I have to ask. Are the boats confiscated or sunk?
If sunk, more fun for the crew.
Say they send 10 shipments like this, and nine get seized and one makes it through. I wonder if the sales made from the one will still make a profit and pay for all the seized product? I watched one of those drug docs years ago and that’s what they claimed about the homemade subs they were sending. If just one made it payload intact it would pay for all the others that get caught plus profit. Who knows.
FReegards
https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2024/05/09/dea-releases-2024-national-drug-threat-assessment
interesting that the boats are picking up cocaine and marijuana but no fentanyl. profit in fentanyl now and not as much in cocaine and m?
Neither of these are narcotics ...
Way to go guys.
That’s an impressive mission. Somebody who thought they had payed the right people just got smoked. There will be repercussions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34934574
“We’ve seen growing use of self-propelled semi-submersibles (SPSSs) - low-profile vessels made out of marine-grade plywood [and] fibreglass with commercial engines. The smugglers spend up to a $1m (£665,000) to build one of these SPSSs for what is often just a one-way voyage.
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US coast guard video showed a raid on a semi-submersible vessel in which $181m of cocaine was found
I don’t know about refining but I am pretty sure some unscrupulous bunkering companies have laced our ship’s fuel with haz mat over the years.
I think that they end up cutting it with God knows what, so the street value is probably double what this says.
I asked Grok, so who know but this is what it came up with.
“For drugs worth $1 million at U.S. street prices:
Cocaine: Costs $30,830–$95,600 to manufacture and ship (8.33 kg), with overheads like bribes and laundering adding to expenses. Profit margin: ~90–97%.
Methamphetamine: Costs $29,750–$98,200 (12.5–17.2 kg). Profit margin: ~90–97%.
Fentanyl: Costs $22,600–$63,500 (50,000 pills, 10–20 grams). Profit margin: ~94–98%.
Overhead: Includes bribes ($500–$8,600), labor ($5,000–$20,000), losses ($1,000–$5,000), and laundering ($10,000–$30,000), varying by drug and operation.
Fentanyl is the most cost-effective for cartels due to low production and shipping costs. Exact figures are estimates due to the illicit nature of the trade.”
I’m guessing the bulk of cocaine and mj make it harder to ship by land. Who knows. But they all run profit margins in the 90s with fentanyl starting in the mid 90s.
Freegards
So just like Wikipedia, do you now believe everything you hear from grok? You are stupid. How many covid vaccines and boosters did you get? geeesh.
The only modern use for cocaine is as a local anesthetic in facial and sinus procedures. The problem with using it as such would be the lack of specific knowledge regarding the refinement procedure.
CC
Well, at least Grok doesn’t insult you for asking a question. Replies like that are why men would prefer sexbots.
Now pass the remote and make me a sammich.
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