I'm glad the Feds discovered and seized the shipment, not the locals. The Philadelphia DA "Let 'em loose" Larry Krasner would have them out on the street in no time. He is absolutely the worst, most incompetent, pro-criminal and anti-cop district attorney in the country.

So how big a is a 16 ton pile of cocaine? One Conex box? Two?

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Originally posted by Woodman:

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Originally posted by BBMW:
It would be interesting to see if this will effect street prices.

More ODs as dealers turn to borax cut with fentanyl.

They should "enhance" this batch, release it on the street at a discount, and let Darwin do his work.....

Well I guess Charlie Sheen’s private party is cancelled this weekend.

I guess since eradication has stopped in Colombia that there’s a large increase in supply. Why not save a few dollars by shipping and buying in bulk.

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Originally posted by White Phosphorus:
I can't imagine risking that much product by shipping it all at once on one ship.
Maybe that's the standard size for shipments these days. Wouldn't it be weird if our perceptions are behind the times?

Why not? It seems more efficient than smaller quantities. Also, how do we know that 10 shipments of this size don't get through port for every one seized?
Sure it's a score for the DEA, but probably changes nothing.

Charlie Sheen's weekend plans are ruined.

The important lesson is that the cartels are not refining coke in small jungle labs.

That quantity requires special equipment just to move it around.

A decent lab can produce 500 kilo in a day. This seizure is about an entire months production from one of these labs and has a “wholesale” cost of somewhere in the $25,000,000 range.

I don’t think the production is that impressive, but the fact that it was a single shipment is.

makes a guy wonder,
if that was the decoy that they wanted you to "discover",

how much got through , that they knew you wouldn't bother with ?

just make it like pot and sell it at the corner coke store ,
people are going to get it anyway ,

good report on this topic:

https://philadelphia.cbslocal....federal-sources-say/


Investigators believe there is still a significant amount of cocaine remaining on the ship.

Two people were arrested and federally charged. According to the criminal complaint, Ivan Durasevic, the ship’s second mate, and Fonofaavae Tiasaga were arrested in the bust.

Before coming to Philadelphia, the Mediterranean Shipping Company ship was previously in the Bahamas, Panama, Peru and Colombia. The ship was on its way to the Netherlands.

According to the complaint, Durasevic admitted his role to authorities in bringing cocaine onto the vessel after being offered $50,000 by the chief officer.

Durasevic told authorities the cocaine was loaded onto the ship after leaving Peru. Tiasaga told authorities that six boats approached the MSC Gayane during the night, while Durasevic operated a crane to bring bags of cocaine onboard.

The ship was later approached by another eight boats, where more cocaine was loaded onto the ship, according to the complaint. Tiasaga told authorities his role was to help in moving the drugs below decks.


The 16 tons of cocaine were found in 7 shipping containers

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Originally posted by Chris42:
So how big a is a 16 ton pile of cocaine? One Conex box? Two?

imagine 16 pallets with one kilo bricks stacked and squared about two and a half feet to three feet high....

or imagine 16 large sized ottomans in your living room...you could probably stuff them all into a small spare room...

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Time to flood the crime industry with rumors of who screwed up, and who let the load get caught for a pile of money. Let the cartels kill their own.

They will know who screwed up with their coke.

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Originally posted by mrvmax:

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Time to flood the crime industry with rumors of who screwed up, and who let the load get caught for a pile of money. Let the cartels kill their own.

They will know who screwed up with their coke.

Yes, but let’s add some volatile fuel to the fire. You just know we have intel on high level cartel members. Start putting their names in certain circles south of the border and wait for the highway overpasses to fill up will ornaments.

Yep. They know who goofed up, but do they know if someone else induced them to do it? And if there was someone else, who was it?

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Yep. They know who goofed up, but do they know if someone else induced them to do it? And if there was someone else, who was it?

Exactly. These cartel folk are a suspicious lot; wouldn’t take much information to get heads rolling if it appeared legit.

There's a whole lot of Bad Hombres from South America getting wacked right about now.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
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The billion-dollar bust, in which several crew members were arrested, occurred aboard the MSC Gayane, a cargo ship that originated in Chile and traveled through Panama and the Bahamas before docking at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philidelphia, a senior official at the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) told CBS News.
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It's true story time again.

Back in '92/'93 I did some contracting work in Santiago Chile for the Carabineros de Chile, the Chilean national police. We were subcontracting to IBM World Trade. I enjoyed myself immensely and found the officers of the Crabineros to be highly professional and very dedicated. After work one day, over a beer or two, I got into a conversation with my IBM representative and the Carabineros Captain I reported to. The topic turned to Chilean politics and the coup d'état that ousted the elected president, Salvador Allende, with General Augusto Pinochet back in 1973. The Carabineros took an active part in the coup and Pinochet was still in power. The Captain responded that the Carabineros had to support the coup because they discovered that Allende had an agreement with Castro's Cuba to ship cocaine to the US. Castro was hurting for hard currency so the Cubans were going to transport large quantities of cocaine from Columbia through Peru and into Chile. In Chile the cocaine would be secreted into shipping containers bound for the US.

We know Cuba is still hurting economically and the current president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, is left leaning. It wouldn't surprise me a bit to discover that this cocaine will lead back to Cuba.

Now it Coke Zero.

'wanna get away??'

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