The massive drug seizure highlights a recent surge in narcotics coming from Colombia, a top producer of cocaine.
RELATED: Coast Guard boards suspected drug-smuggling sub
The haul of illegal narcotics brought home by the U.S. Coast Guard cutter James to a port in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was one of the biggest in recent memory, a reflection of increasingly sophisticated U.S. arsenal that includes powerful drones and special infrared cameras that can detect heat from small cocaine-laden vessels.
But it also highlights a recent surge in narcotics coming from Colombia, a close U.S. ally and the world’s top producer of cocaine.
The Biden administration’s top anti-narcotics officials traveled to South Florida to welcome back the vessel’s crew and tout the Coast Guard’s role interdicting drugs before they reach American streets.
“We are hitting the drug traffickers where it hits them most: their pocketbooks,” said Dr. Rahul Gupta, head of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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That’s a big catch rite there
Imagine how many lives could be saved if we let the real drugs through and stopped the fentanyl
Stopping fentanyl will only happen with regulation of pure product. As long as a black market exists, tainted drugs are a risk.
Bad new for Russian kids can’t have marijuana training as beginners before they advance to intermediate drug level to compete at sport since US coast guard seize this ship..
Bad boys 2 movie is real lol.
USA JANUARY 6TH IS REAL AMERICANS DEMOCRACY???????????????????????????
Coast Guard rob the dope dealer and hand it over to the CIA that turns around an put it on the streets of America & collect the cash.
So what are they going to do with the drugs now? No way theyre going to destroy a billion dollars worth of drugs .
They already distributed pipes, so maybe going to distribute the things too 🤣
Give it to the nefarious actors they wish to find but cannot do so directly maybe?
Cannabis should be legal.
All drugs should be legal. If tobacco and sugar cane are allowed, how can we say anything about drugs that bill fractions of what those do?
Square Grouper
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John 3:16
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the clock is ticking……
About to flow out of the cia
Please explain what they’re gonna do with them!🤷♀️
Find a buyer, pocket the profit. Lol jk
Basically you can say it was a boatload of drugs!
All that dope will be in the streets of Miami within the next week
We will never stop people from consuming what they want. Stop funding cartels and street gangs.
Legalize
Every
Drug