CNS: The year 2016 was a record-breaking year for the U.S. Coast Guard’s fight against drug trafficking.
By the end of October, the Coast Guard had seized over 416,600 pounds of cocaine worth nearly $5.6 billion, the largest one-year amount in the service’s history. This total was accumulated over 263 individual interdictions primarily in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
During these operations, the Coast Guard also apprehended 585 suspected drug smugglers, 465 of whom were transferred to the U.S. for prosecution.
The Coast Guard is one of America’s most potent forces in the fight against drug trafficking, but the service also recognizes the uphill battle it faces in this fight. more here
SNIP: This should worry a few Hollywood types…
God bless to those young men and women. Fighting
the ocean is bad enough, when you add druggies it’s
significantly worse.
MJA Do you ever sleep? Just sayin.
Shhh…I’m asleep right now.
-MJA
i’m confused.
did they then resell it?
how does this affect the opium trade the feds established in Afghanistan?
does this mean the feds cornered the market this year on cocaine?
how much did the clintons and bush’s take off the top?
did rick james get his share? “cocaine’s a hell of a drug!”
This is another good project the Mexican and Central American gov’ts can pay for. Drug trafficking is one of the main reasons Mexican officials don’t want a wall. It will put a severe dent in their kickbacks from the cartels.
I don’t understand why they don’t just blow the sub up. Take a brick or two for the prosecution and then blow it up.
Semper paratus.
Soooooo … where’s my share?
I’m not usually a fan of law enforcement immediate Civil forfeiture, but if they find the drugs on board the boats should be seized and destroyed.
Zonga,
And if the boat was hijacked? Or the owner’s family held at gunpoint?
Remember, if you rent a home to a drug-dealer, you have no right to inspect their doings, but if they’re caught, the state gets the home.
Most of these (forfeiture) things are “[m]ucked up by design” to the advantage of the state and the cops – the owners be damned.
izlamo delenda est …