U.S. Officials Stop $200M Cocaine Shipment, Let It Sink To The Ocean Floor
When politicians say we need to be tougher at our borders, I’m positive they don’t mean this. They’re talking about keepin’ terrorists at bay and my people in Mexico, not depriving all of us of large amounts of cocaine. You’ve done screwed this one up, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Earlier this month, U.S. officials intercepted a submarine originating from the “Eastern Pacific Ocean” carrying a large payload of cocaine. The ship sank before the cocaine could be rescued.
From RT:
On March 2, a team from US Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations division based in Corpus Christi, Texas detected a semi-submersible vessel from the air while using a P-3 Long Range Tracker aircraft to conduct counter-narcotics operations. The self-propelled semi-sub was found to have more than 12,800 pounds of cocaine – about 5.5 tons – onboard after a US Coast Guard vessel intercepted it.
The Coast Guard arrested four people who were operating the vessel, but the semi-sub itself ‘became unstable and it along with the cocaine sank to the ocean floor,’ Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesperson Yolanda Choates confirmed to RT.
The cocaine was worth approximately $194 million.

Way to go, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. There are sober kids at colleges all across America. I hope you’re happy with yourselves.
While the seizure was a big win for U.S. officials (and a big loss for the American consumer), it’s not the largest drug bust in history. Nor is it the first time they’ve wasted perfectly good cocaine.
In July last year, Northern California Coast Guard officials stopped a submarine carrying 16,000 pounds of cocaine. The Los Angeles Times reports they seized 12,000 pounds of the product before letting the vessel balance in the water to tow it to shore. But the vessel reportedly took on water, sinking the 4,000 remaining pounds of cocaine all the way down to the ocean floor.
Here’s video of that bust:
Please, a moment of silence for all the good cocaine we’ve lost in the past year. RIP cocaine..
[via RT]
Image via Instagram/@customsborder
No wonder quality balls have gone from 180 to 200
9 years ago at 3:31 pmPaying retail for coke. TFM.
9 years ago at 3:39 pmBuying weight and administering acetone baths became too much work
9 years ago at 3:53 pmyou only buy gs tho son
9 years ago at 4:05 pmIvegummedmorethanyouveseen
9 years ago at 4:07 pmI only boof mine.
9 years ago at 5:47 pmI laughed bro but naw false
9 years ago at 6:21 pmLegalize cocaine!
9 years ago at 3:33 pmTFM should put that on a shirt and sell it…
9 years ago at 11:50 pm*Rowdy Gentleman
9 years ago at 7:32 amThis article is trash.
9 years ago at 3:33 pmRIP.
9 years ago at 3:36 pmTime to get out the snorkel
9 years ago at 3:47 pmNot sure you understand how a snorkle works
9 years ago at 9:13 pmOh silly me will a snorkel not work?! Appreciate you pointing that out man thanks!
9 years ago at 9:45 amWhen shit hits the fan, they sink and retrieve the load later.. No droughts. Ever
9 years ago at 3:49 pmThanks Obama
9 years ago at 3:52 pm?
9 years ago at 8:54 pmLooks like I gotta convince my dad to buy me a submarine now
9 years ago at 3:59 pmThose fish are gonna be tweaked the fuck out
9 years ago at 4:42 pmI have to try that with nemo in my fish tank.
9 years ago at 1:24 amThey forgot to add in the press release, ” . . . the vessel sank . . . to later be recovered by a CIA dive team.”
9 years ago at 4:46 pm