The Coast Guard Seized 1,500 Pounds Of Cocaine, Unloaded It In Florida Today
12 years ago

If you’ve been known to enjoy the booger sugar from time to time, you might want to sit down before you read this. Maybe pour yourself a drink or something to relax the nerves a bit. This one’s going to hit close to home for you.

During a recent patrol of the Caribbean, crew members of a United States Coast Guard cutter received intelligence reporting the presence of a suspicious 35-foot ship operating south of the Dominican Republic. The cutter, USCGC Venturous, changed her heading and moved toward the reported location of the suspicious ship.

When the crew of the suspicious ship saw the approaching Venturous, they began tossing things overboard. Good call. That doesn’t seem unusual at all. Just casually throwing shit off the side of the ship. An everyday occurrence at sea, I’m sure.

The crew aboard the Venturous were able to secure 28 of the items tossed overboard, which turned out to be bales that tested positive for cocaine. Today, the crew are unloading the drugs they recovered, and they’re unloading a lot of them. To be specific, at port in St. Petersburg, Florida, roughly 1,500 pounds of cocaine are being brought to shore. Let that sink in for a minute. 1,500 pounds of blow.

Coke Boat

The cocaine is estimated to have a wholesale value of around $23 million dollars. If split into smaller quantities, who knows how much money criminals could have made with that.

Say what you will about using the stuff, but personally, I’m glad it’s in the hands of law enforcement rather than the hands of thugs on our streets.

[via The Tampa Tribune]

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  3. diaryofapike

    Yea I killed spring break, literally. It’s dead. Spring break was actually moved to the Pike mansh where me and my bro Titanium Tim did a 20 story beer bong. Yea that’s right, we had our resident Pike helicopter pilot on deck flying one of our PIKEacopters and holding the beer bong. It was pretty legit. I’ve seen better though. But anyways, we started Spring break with a little thing I call Throwback 09. That’s where we gather up a bunch of 4 lokos circa 09, and have our bitch pledges build a 20 foot wall. We pretty much make them build the wall the whole day and feed them nothing but grain alcohol. Lol I pissed in my little’s cup and made him shoot it. IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE HEAT, GET THE FUCK OUT. 3 of the pledges had to be life flighted from a combination of heat stroke and butt chugging franzia. We call it PIKE stroke. After they build the wall, we drink our 4 Lokos and punch holes through the wall. My best hole was 5 feet in diameter with just one punch. I’m yoked OBLY. After a hard day of raging, we flock to the gym, probably 15-1000 of us at a time and we do a PIKE takeover. Barbell curls in the steam room ALL day! what’s that? The hot tub isn’t meant for doing squats? Sorry can’t hear you over the sound of the new PC drowning and me grunting as I bust out reps in the 95 degree water. This is only our pre workout. FUCK THE LEACH (gym)… it was time to hit up golds (other gym). I began my post preworkout by cutting the sleeves off all my George W. t-shirts, and flexing in one of our PIKE mirrors, our house is pretty much just made of mirrors, how else could we admire our perfection every second of the day? One time my buddy Poon-Slaying Jim had a bad day of the roid rages and broke his mirror. We pretty much had to life flight one from wal mart because his self esteem dropped so low for not being able to see himself for like 30 seconds. But anyways… Yea Pike was KILLING it SW. #Getonmylevel #Pikerunsit

    12 years ago at 4:33 pm
  7. CapstoneRager

    Has anyone heard from guywhowearssperrys? Was this his blow that was seized?

    12 years ago at 7:46 pm
  8. DrunkWithFunk21

    The ship actually had about 3,000 lbs. But being in the coast guard really ties you out. also, booger sugar… I chuckled

    12 years ago at 8:07 pm
  10. Republic_of_Texas

    That could fetch $41 mil here, if it were uncut and broken down to the smallest buy-able quantity though.

    12 years ago at 9:14 pm
  11. NotaFratStar

    So after the Coast Guard sells this to Mexico for around 40 million dollars, we can just sell drugs to get out of debt as a country right?

    12 years ago at 10:06 pm