If the bone headed Federal authorities were able to stumble upon $1 billion of cocaine, imagine how much must be getting through undetected.
Feds seize $1 billion worth of cocaine in massive Philadelphia drug bust
Federal authorities discovered 16.5 tons of cocaine on a ship in a Philadelphia port and arrested members of the crew in one of the largest drug busts in the area’s history, authorities said Tuesday.
The large haul of coke — with a street value of approximately $1 billion — was seized from a large ship at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, said the US Attorney’s office.
“This is the largest drug seizure in the history of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,” the US Attorney’s office tweeted.
Those on the ship were arrested and federally charged, authorities said. The investigation is ongoing.
Earlier this year, $77 million in cocaine was seized in Newark when investigators cracked open a shipping container.
Inspectors from Customs and Border Protection and the Drug Enforcement Administration at the Port of New York/Newark searched the container on Feb. 28 after noticing that its lock appeared to have been tampered with, law enforcement sources said.
When they opened the container, they found 60 burlap sacks packed to the brim with wrapped bricks of cocaine nestled among several containers of dried fruit, the sources said.
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It was probable shipped to the wrong port. Must have meant to go to Langley.
Big business is always interconnected with government via lobbying, bribery, and regulation. It is inconceivable that a “business” importing 33 tons of cocaine at a time is not deeply supported by the power structure at key “nodes”…..e.g. the Port authorities are obviously corrupt and paid off….Philadelphia not being the most convenient location indicates that corruption is the likely attractant to take the ship there. On the Federal level, we have intelligence capabilities that are mind-boggling……every single phone call, text, email and potentially web search is archived into a massive database. We have surveillance tools that can watch an ant fart from space and determine what the ant ate last….so it should be obvious to even the casual observer that the US Federal Government actively supports and enables drug trafficking on an industrial scale into the United States.
Why….in a bygone era religion was the opiate of the masses…..in the modern era…..opiates themselves are the opiates of the cowed masses…..A drugged up population entangled in the prison cycle, government dependency rotation is easier to control…….
An operation that large is CIA.
The disturbing part is that someone thought there was a very good chance that a shipment that large could simply sail in unnoticed. Imagine the level of corruption necessary to lead a group of obviously very successful business people to believe that this could happen. They thought they had all the right people bought off. Some heads are gonna roll after this.
Every once in a while, you have to make it appear that law enforcement is effective.
The Federal Prosecutor gets the feather and the cocaine gets “lost” at some warehouse.
Alphabet pays wholesale to get it here, runs it through the system and gets retail when it somehow appears later in the ‘hood.
Someone’s not going to be happy.
Just imagine how much opium/heroin has made it into this country in all those coffins that have passed through Dover Air Force Base (with complete bans on all media coverage of these shipments).
Pretty sure seizures indicate those smuggling drugs without official permission. Or trying to sneak it past their handlers.
And that “street value” is based on what it would fetch if it was sold in dime bags at the street level. Probably closer to several million dollars wholesale.
A billion is low-balling it. Even if all of it were sold by the ounce, uncut. Ounces are cut, count on it.
16 tons x 2,000 lbs/ton x 16 oz/lb x $1600/oz = $819,200,000. Close enough to a billion to put it way over with 500 lbs of lactose added to ounces.
In dime bags (3xs cut) it would be over $4 billion. Easy.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/over-16-tons-cocaine-seven-shipping-containers-seized-massive-bust-n1019021
Seems there is a coke craze every twenty years going back into the 1800’s. Hadn’t heard of it for years as it was displaced by meth. The pst six months there have been numerous arrests locally. All Black people from Shitcago. One guy had a quarter pound in his pocket!
Nobody gets charged for even a misdemeanor for under an eighth ounce in Seattle or ‘Frisco.
3-1/2 grams of 70% will last one guy all weekend and then some. It’s been providing bulletproof weekends since the 1800’s.
But how much will actually still be around as “evidence” when the trial happens?
The best place to hide stuff is right under people’s noses: