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Chinese police seize 2.4 tonnes of Ice amid drug crackdown in Guangdong

Police seize 2.4 tonnes of methamphetamine near scene of similar operation a year ago

Police in Guangdong seized 2.4 tonnes of the illegal drug Ice, mainland media reported yesterday, a year after another huge operation in the province led to the arrests of nearly 200 suspects.

Guangdong and Shanghai police teamed up for a joint operation last Friday on a drug manufacturing plant in the village of Meijiaoxia in Lufeng , Guangdong province, seizing the drug haul - with an estimated street value of up to 500 million yuan - and 1.51 million yuan (HK$1.9 million) in cash.

Two pistols were also confiscated and 28 suspects arrested, including two syndicate heads, the reports said.

The operation was the biggest of its kind for Shanghai police, Xinhua reported, citing Shanghai's public security bureau.


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The Shanghai-based Xinmin Evening News reported that police fired warning shots as one of the syndicate heads, identified only by his surname Chen, tried to flee in a car. More than 160kg of Ice was found in his vehicle.

The report said Chen was the main "investor" behind the drug plant, which could produce up to 200kg of Ice a day.

The reports also said the syndicates ferried drugs between Shanghai and Guangdong.

Guangdong is notorious for drug trafficking. In January 2014, a massive operation involving 109 raids netted 2.9 tonnes of Ice and 182 arrests in another Lufeng village called Boshe.

The syndicates were so well organised that more than 3,000 paramilitary personnel, police and border guards from Guangzhou, Shantou, Huizhou, Meizhou and Heyuan were deployed.

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Guangdong and Shanghai police mounted Friday's joint operation after information from several drug-trafficking cases in the municipality in August revealed that one suspect surnamed Wu was ferrying drugs between the two locations.

Wu's syndicate was delivering up to 30kg of Ice to Shanghai at a time.

Four Shanghai police officers went to Guangdong to carry out further investigations in December, and were followed by about 30 officers in the last few weeks as investigators uncovered at least seven links in the complex delivery network between the two centres. Some of the drug buyers were from the provinces of Hunan , Jiangsu and Liaoning .

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Source: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/arti...-seize-24-tonnes-ice-chinas-largest-drug-bust
 
Officials Seize 15 Tons of Pot in Second-Largest Border Drug Bust

When searching for hidden stash, an obvious place to check is the mattress.

Federal police in California did so last week, and found 15 tons of marijuana, and made the second largest weed bust in history at a U.S. border crossing.

The truck carrying the weed crossed into California from Mexico at Otay Mesa. The shipment was labeled as "mattresses and cushions." A Customs and Border Police officer had the cargo bay X-rayed, and the objects inside didn't look right, the CBP said in a statement.

An officer flapped open the cargo doors to see weed wrapped into plastic packages, stacked from floor to ceiling -- 1,296 in all. Together they weighed in at 31,598 pounds and had an estimated street value of $18.96 million.

There were a few mattresses in the shipping bay, at the opposite end of the load.

The largest border crossing pot bust payload in U.S. history also arrived into Southern California from Mexico in 2013. It tipped the scales at 35,265 pounds or 17.6 tons.

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Source: http://time.com/3728125/marijuana-pot-border-bust/
 
thats too much weed for me to try and calculate how much its worth...
 
U.S. authorities seize $180 million Colombian cocaine shipment

BOGOTA (Reuters) - U.S. authorities confiscated a $180 million shipment of cocaine from Colombian drug traffickers aboard a boat on the Pacific Ocean bound for the United States, the Colombian attorney general's office said on Saturday.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) found 5.28 tonnes of the drug aboard the vessel, captured in international waters off Central America, said Alexandra Ladino, director of the attorney general's specialized police force, which cooperated with the DEA on the operation.

The Panamanian-flagged boat had earlier departed the Colombian port city of Buenaventura, Ladino said. The drugs belonged to a Colombian trafficking group, which she said would not be named for fear of compromising further investigations.

Fourteen crew members, from Colombia and other Latin American countries, were detained and will be processed in the United States, Ladino told reporters.

Colombia, a major cocaine producer, manufactures some 300 tonnes annually, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Authorities confiscated about 166 tonnes of the drug in 2014.

Marxist rebels, gangs made up of ex-paramilitaries and small cartels dominate much of Colombia's narcotics trade. Cocaine and other drugs are some of the principal sources of financing for groups fighting in the country's 50-year civil war, which has killed over 200,000 people.

(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta; Writing by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Frances Kerry)

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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015...P620150321?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

Let me guess they put a dent on the war on drugs lol
 
70 kg of heroin snagged in the Bronx is biggest DEA seizure in New York State history

-70 kg of heroin snagged in the Bronx is biggest DEA seizure in New York State history

A year-long Bronx drug probe delivered a stunning and sobering payoff: The seizure of enough heroin to get every one of the city’s 8.4 million residents high.

It was the largest single Drug Enforcement Administration seizure of heroin in New York State history — and the fourth biggest ever in the nation.

“This load was so large, it carried the potential of supplying a dose of heroin to every man, woman and child in New York City,” said city Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan."

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ggest-dea-seizure-ny-offici-article-1.2227827

Well, this wasn't coming or anything.
 
God damn, I'd fill a swimming pool with it and swim in it like scrooge McDuck in his gold coins haha.

That's a heavy bust. I bet the entire north east coast will feel it. A lot of bmore dope co.es from NY as does a bunch of other cities.

Sucks that load got caught.
 
That's some weight. I got out of NJ just in time and to California to change from secretly doing dope to openly smoking weed
 
Spanish police seize cocaine inside hollowed-out pineapples

The drugs had arrived in Spain via a ship from Central America, the Spanish interior ministry says

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Spanish police seized 200 kilos of cocaine found inside hollowed-out pineapples that arrived by ship from Central America, the interior ministry said on Sunday.

The drug-stuffed fruit was found among 10 shipping containers filled with pineapples that arrived in the southern port of Algeciras, one of Europe's largest ports, the ministry said in a statement.

"Among the thousands of fresh pineapples inside the containers, they found fruit that had been hollowed out and stuffed with drugs and then covered with a yellow wax that simulated the colour of pineapple pulp," the statement said.

The pineapples arrived from an undisclosed country in Central America and were en route to two companies, one based in Madrid and the other in Sant Quirze del Valles near Barcelona.

Both companies were said to be run by Spanish nationals of Colombian origin.

The police detained three people as part of their investigation and have not ruled out more arrests.

Last year, police in Algeciras seized 2.5 tonnes of cocaine hidden inside a shipment of pineapples arriving from Costa Rica – one of the biggest ever seizures of the drug in Spain.

Spain's close ties to its former colonies in Latin America have made it a key entry point for cocaine smuggled across the Atlantic to Europe.

Smugglers have used increasingly weird methods to get the drug past Spanish customs.

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In recent years police have found cocaine inside breast implants, a wig, a plaster cast encasing a man's broken leg as well as inside a 42-piece crockery set, consisting of bowls, plates and saucers.


Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...e-cocaine-inside-hollowed-out-pineapples.html
 
Damn those are pretty well done. Mixed with a bunch of real ones I'd think many inspectors would miss that. I wonder if it was a k-9 or maybe some kind of tipoff.
 
Australian warship seizes $520 million worth of heroin off African coast

Australian warship HMAS Newcastle has continued a remarkable spree of mega drug busts, seizing more than half a tonne of heroin from a smuggling dhow off the East African coast.

Based on street values from the UN world drug report for 2014, the 581 kilogram haul was worth $520 million.

That follows a 724 kilogram bust last week, taking Newcastle's total drug haul to 1.3 tonnes, worth more than $1.1 billion.

'We've stopped more than 581 kilograms of narcotics from reaching the streets and the resulting proceeds from feeding back to terrorist organisations,' Newcastle's captain Commander Dominic MacNamara said in a defence statement.

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Since February last year, Australian ships conducting operations with the Combined Maritime Forces in the Middle East have seized more than four tonnes of heroin.

In a major bust last September, HMAS Toowoomba seized more than five tonnes of hashish from a smuggling vessel off the coast of Somalia.

These drugs mostly originate in Pakistan and Afghanistan and follow ancient ocean smuggling routes to Africa known as the 'hash highway' and the 'smack track'.

Seized drugs are dumped back in the ocean while the crews of smuggling vessels are sent on their way.

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...taking-crew-s-haul-1-1-billion-just-days.html
 
Seized drugs are dumped back in the ocean while the crews of smuggling vessels are sent on their way.

So guess they just go back and collect some more
 
^ That's probably the dumbest thing I have ever read.
Do they really think they're doing good by dumping tons of drugs in the ocean and then sending the smugglers to do it all over.
 
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