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Authorities intercepted two speedboats -- sinking one -- and recovered about 13,000 pounds of cocaine worth almost $1 billion.
Indeed, that's billion with a B.
"These two disruptions are an example of the international cooperative law enforcement effort to disrupt transnational criminal activity and deny their profiting from such activity," Doug Garner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's director of national air security operations in Jacksonville, Florida, said in a news release.
The Memorial Day weekend drug bust, which was announced Wednesday, resulted from two separate interdiction efforts, the first unfolding Friday north of the Galapagos Islands, west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

More guvmint regulation destroying small business

 

[codhand]

so the drug war is over now?

 

[Shotgun Kiss]

 

[Stinkles]

 

[Caelestis]

That must be a blow to drug dealers...

 

[waterydave]

what do they do with all the seized drugs? Do they dispose of it or is there a huge warehouse full of blow somewhere?

 

[PogiJones]

To get a sense of the scope of this haul, does anyone know how many billions/year the drug industry in the U.S. is?

 

[Capital_Five]

Somewhere a cartel boss is very dissappointed with his former employees.

 

[Protein]

Every every time there's a huge drug bust I just picture some cartel guy getting shanked in prison and another getting his head cut off by a katana by a cartel boss. "You have failed me for the LAST time Ignacio!"

 

[The Elite]

But it was supposed to come to Canada.

 

[Lonestar]

fuuuuuuuu, so many people are going to die horribly over this.

 

[Divvy]

EDIT: Fuuuuu

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

They look like big tablets of chiclet from a distance.

 

[Vestal]

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Well someones head is going to roll.

 

[chickdigger802]

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And it's all due to the deductions of a horse detective!

And bad boys.

 

[Sub_Level]

At least it's something that can actually be dangerous and not pot.

How do they dispose of all the coke?

 

[malyce]

I hate when they over exaggerate the prices of drug busts. Even at 20k/ki street price, it's only $130,000,000.

 

[DigitalRicket]

Curious: what do the authorities do with confiscated drugs? I mean, you wouldn't just destroy $1 billion dollars of anything, right?

 

[maquiladora]

 

[Sushigod7]

That piece of shit up there I never like him.

 

[Minigo]

pre-order canceled

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

Speedboats can hold 7000 pounds? Wow.

 

[maquiladora]

Curious: what do the authorities do with confiscated drugs? I mean, you wouldn't just destroy $1 billion dollars of anything, right?

 

[Grinchy]

I wonder what the different colors of the packages mean. Were they just made in different places or are they different potencies?

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

Usually they only catch the small guys but man 1B that is one big catch! :O

I wonder what the different colors of the packages mean. Were they just made in different places or are they different potencies?

Most likely, or they just run of out of that collar type that day and just used a different one.

 

[SmokeMaxX]

I wonder what the different colors of the packages mean. Were they just made in different places or are they different potencies?

Walmart ran out of grocery bags, so they had to go to target. Then target ran out so they had to go Home Depot. etc. etc.

 

[soul creator]

dope on the table

 

[GoldenEye 007]

Holy fuck....

 

[kitch9]

Well someones head is going to roll.

Having never ever even tried cocaine in my life I could not imagine what sticking your hooter in a big pile of pure and taking a big sniff would be like.

I definitely have never had it.

Honest.

 

[Protein]

fuuuuuuuu, so many people are going to die horribly over this.

Yeah this is the gruesome reality of it. They're going to torture/kill some of people within their organization and it will probably be as bad as medieval torture. The cartel are monsters :/

 

[Thunder Monkey]

NOT ENOUGH!!!

 

[Stellactic]

That's quite a bit of cocaine. Do that many people do coke in the US or is this just an enormous amount that would take forever to sell.

 

[Thunder Monkey]

That's quite a bit of cocaine. Do that many people do coke in the US or is this just an enormous amount that would take forever to sell.

Ami and me in a weekend with some of the finest prostitutes coke can buy.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

Yeah this is the gruesome reality of it. They're going to torture/kill some of people within their organization and it will probably be as bad as medieval torture. The cartel are monsters :/

The people getting killed are probably just as monstrous

 

[Future PhaZe]

somebody is getting their fingers cut off right now over this :O

 

[iamvin22]

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Wall Street about to be unproductive.

 

[valkillmore]

They could really put a dent in criminals profiting by legalizing everything.

 

[SolsticeZero]

More guvmint regulation destroying small business

Bravo. I actually laughed pretty hard.

 

[Thunder Monkey]

They could really put a dent in criminals profiting by legalizing everything.

But then what are they going to arrest minorities and the poor for?

Check and mate.

 

[genjiZERO]

Fuuuuuuuuck...... That was a Christmas present for my mom.

 

[Protein]

They could really put a dent in criminals profiting by legalizing everything.

Especially marijuana. That accounts for 50% cartel revenue alone.

 

[Stellactic]

But then what are they going to arrest minorities and the poor for?

Check and mate.

Dehumanizing stares.

 

[joe2187]

Curious: what do the authorities do with confiscated drugs? I mean, you wouldn't just destroy $1 billion dollars of anything, right?

What do you propose the goverment does with an illegal drug that has no other usefulness than fucking up your shit?

 

[TheJollyCorner]

somebody is getting their fingers cut off right now over this :O

fingers?


If they are lucky & the boss is in a wonderful mood it will only be their fingers.

 

[Thunder Monkey]

Dehumanizing stares.

Hmmm... good point.

 

[SmokyDave]

Blimey, Charlie.

 

[Binabik15]

One BILLION? Walther White am cry.

 

[iamvin22]

But then what are they going to arrest minorities and the poor for?

Check and mate.

cold blooded...