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http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/JoshSchaikowitz.shtmlMadhatter4 said:^^^Where did you get that stat?
Let us assume that it's only gone up with the population
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/JoshSchaikowitz.shtmlMadhatter4 said:^^^Where did you get that stat?
Largest Maritime Cocaine Bust Unloaded In Alameda
POSTED: 7:50 am PDT April 23, 2007
UPDATED: 9:26 am PDT April 23, 2007
ALAMEDA -- About 20 tons of cocaine -- seized in the largest maritime bust in U.S. history with a street value of $500 million -- was unloaded under heavy guard Monday at Coast Guard Island in Alameda County.
U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Charley Diaz said the bust took place in the waters off Panama last month.
"The bust was pretty amazing," Diaz said. "We were told to go identify a vessel that had been spotted by a Coast Guard C-130. We found the vessel and sent a boarding team aboard. There were some inconsistencies between what the master was saying was in the containers and what the crew manifest said."
"We searched the vessel -- The first two containers we looked in were piled high with cocaine."
In all, the crew found 765 bales --- weighing about 50 pounds a piece -- stacked neatly on the Panamanian freighter.
"The crew is ecstatic," Diaz told KTVU. "It's the largest drug bust in U.S. history… It's not something you do every day."
Diaz said there was no resistance from the crew of the freighter.
The bust came during the Coast Guard cutter Sherman's three-month voyage for eastern Pacific law enforcement in the waters off of Central and South America.
Diaz said the drugs were to be flown to Miami where the Drug Enforcement Agency will dispose of them.
Diaz said the drugs were to be flown to Miami where the Drug Enforcement Agency will dispose of them.
Bent Mk2 said:Diaz said the drugs were to be flown to Miami where the Drug Enforcement Agency will dispose of them