20-ton cocaine bust biggest in Coast Guard's history

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20 Tons of Coke or approx 500,000,000 in street value seized. Some drug lord is going to be very unhappy.

(04-23) 11:20 PDT ALAMEDA -- The U.S. Coast Guard unloaded about 20 tons of seized cocaine from a cutter today on Coast Guard Island in Alameda.

The cocaine was seized in mid-March off the coast of Panama by officials on the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman, based in Alameda, and the Hamilton, based in San Diego.

A Coast Guard patrol aircraft spotted a motor vessel, the Gatuan, on March 17 while the crew was patrolling the waters about 20 miles southwest of Isla de Coiba, Panama. Officials discovered the cocaine after searching the ship and arrested 14 crewmembers.

The bust was the largest in the Coast Guard's history. Previously, the largest seizure was in 2004, when the agency seized more than 30,000 pounds of cocaine from a ship.

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Hooly crap! :eek:

That's a lot of lives saved.
 
was about to post this

bbc says theres that many gangs in mexico and south america producing the stuff that this bust wont even effect street value :eek: :p
 
id like the value of it in my bank acc its about time they started busting some of the higer class drugs
 
lay-z-boy said:
So where does it all go now?

More importantly, why does he have a gun? :confused:

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you expect him to stand there guarding 500 million worth of drugs unarmed

there l be ALLOT of people wanting to get there hands on that haul


oh and it all goes to miami and is "destroyed" according to another news website

akways wondered how they got those white beaches :eek:
 
doesn't make a **** of difference. to quote the poster above it's a "drop in the ocean".

where there is demand, there will always be a supply.
 
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