Posted on 12/07/2018 6:16:44 AM PST by heterosupremacist
Jurors in drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s trial Thursday watched footage of the first-ever US Coast Guard interception of a cocaine-packed submarine.
Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Todd Bagetis, who took part in the September 2008 seizure, said his crew had been patrolling international waters when they came across the semi-submersible, some 350 miles east of Guatemala.
Using night-vision goggles, his team boarded the submarine — where an irate crew immediately tried to sink the boat and toss off the lawmen.
“They put the vessel in [reverse] and tried to throw my crew off. My crew were hanging onto the exhaust pipe for dear life,” Bagetis said.
The dark footage shows a single head popping up from the hatch, and then water flooding the vessel. Bagetis had earlier testified that the boats were designed to sink in as little as three to five minutes if desired.
Once they’d detained the crew, Bagetis said his team discovered 237 bales of cocaine — about 13,000 pounds.
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There are no pictures of inside the submarine as the NYP has you believe.
Should have been: Sighted sub, sank same.
Not quite a Sub,
But a great weekend
In Dallas!
Sub serves as evidence. Sunk sub, no evidence.
Why do you think the druggies wanted to sink their sub?
...and it wasn’t just to get rid of the cocaine...
"Inside the CAPTURE of a ...."
OTOH, it is not a submarine.
Delivery Drone, hope it stops by my...wait a minute, I have a cunning plan.
Yes!
We Will be RICH!
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or in Orange Jumpsuits.
At first, I read "Orange Jumpsuits" as "Orange Julius" - is that some sort of new alternative to prison ?
Orange Julius,,,?
A frothy,sweet
Orange Carbonated Drink!
It’s Delicious!
Didn’t know those things had dairy in them, had a very unpleasant experience at the Gallery in Philly when I was kid.
However, so dark hardly worth watching. 3:09 in length
True but they kind of mislead you by saying “inside” - would have been interesting to see what it looked like inside; I guess they were talking about the inside story of the capture.
Cool. they’re pretty sophisticated considering.
A modern version of “The Monitor.”
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