Coast Guard announces record drug seizures

The San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | Aug. 10, 2015 | Gretel C. Kovach and Lyndsay Winkley

[familyop]

Over the last 10 months, the U.S. Coast Guard and partners from the Navy, federal law enforcement and allied nations worked together to apprehend 215 suspected smugglers in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and more than 119,000 pounds of cocaine. The drugs have an estimated street value of about $1.8 billion...The impact of the seizures will be felt far from U.S. streets, however. "The cultivation, trafficking and distribution of narcotics fuels violence and instability throughout the Western Hemisphere, leaving a path of destruction directly to the door step of the U.S. We must continue to make progress in our effort to combat transnational organized crime networks to ensure safety and security in our hemisphere," Zukunft said.

[familyop]

The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard personnel who participated in the drug busts are heroes, indeed! Many more dope fiends will switch to meth and be easier to spot.

[servantoftheservant]

An unfortunate waste of time and money. There isn’t a single person in the US who desires drugs who can’t get them.

[RC one]

I posted this a few days ago and, apparently, the drugs will be resold on the streets of America by the US government, the coast guard had no business in Mexican waters, ths was some kind of payoff to the government by the cartels, and this is just another example of the failure of America's drug war. :rollseyes

[onedoug]

That much less stash for ø.

Fine job Coasties!

[familyop]

"...illegal drugs intercepted far offshore of Latin America" (off of South America in international waters).

[hoosiermama]

Sell it and pay off some of our national debt. /s

[Buckeye McFrog]

If they’re having seizures, perhaps they should stop taking drugs.