$500 Million dollar drug busts linked to the Cartels

Vambram said:

FBI Director Kash Patel and AG Pam Bondi Announce $500 Million Drug Bust Linked to Mexican Drug Cartels (VIDEO) * The Gateway Pundit * by Ben Kew

FBI Director Kash Patel and AG Pam Bondi unveil a historic drug bust, seizing over $500 million in narcotics linked to major Mexican cartels. This operation…

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A half of a billion dollars worth of cocaine and Marijuana was seized by the US Coast Guard with assistance from the DOJ, and the FBI.

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Desk trauma said:

I’m sure this is the one that’ll finally break the cartel and win the war on drugs! They will never recover! Cocaine will be a unavailable now!

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Aryeh Jay said:

I remember getting a huge cocaine haul around 2006 when I was in the Coast Guard. All by ourselves in the Pacific. We both accidentally found each other. No intelligence whatsoever. We pulled into San Diego about a month later and turned it over to the DEA. Next day the papers all said DEA seized over one hundred million dollars of cocaine in San Diego harbor. The only mention of us was that we assisted and we were based out of Seattle.

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Desk trauma said:

You should be grateful they didn’t confiscate your ship along with it.

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Vambram said:

A half of a billion dollars worth of cocaine and Marijuana was seized by the US Coast Guard with assistance from the DOJ, and the FBI.

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ThatRobGuy said:

The cocaine I understand...

Not sure why they're making marijuana a main focus given its legal status in so many states.

Was it just a case where they targeting a cocaine bust, and the marijuana just happened to be there with it by happenstance?

At a press conference on Wednesday, Bondi confirmed that the Coast intercepted almost 45,000 pounds of cocaine and 3,800 pounds of marijuana worth over $509 million.

I remember last year, when Customs seized that haul of 2800 pounds of pot at the World Trade Bridge, the estimated the value was at only about $4 million.


So I would have to assume it was the 45,000 pounds of blow that was the "big get" on this bust.

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Desk trauma said:

Valuations are made up to make the press release to sound impressive. My favorite is the claim that a man had half a billion worth of opium from a one acre raggedy home poppy field.

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Aryeh Jay said:

The government uses the upper scale of the uncut street price. It dosen't sound good if it's the production price.

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Desk trauma said:

they would have to included the weight of the soil in the field to even pretend to be approaching the amount needed for the half billion valuation.

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