Over $239 million worth of cocaine, including from a narco-submarine, seized in Pacific last month 9 TONS OF COCAINE

 

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9 TONS?

18,000 POUNDS IS 9 TONS!

Over $239 million worth of cocaine, including from a narco-submarine, seized in Pacific last month

The U.S. Coast Guard said it offloaded the more than 18,000 pounds of cocaine in San Diego this week after it seized the drugs in six separate smuggling events.

Over 9 tons of cocaine from six separate drug smuggling events were seized last month and offloaded in San Diego on Wednesday, authorities said.

The cocaine has an estimated street value of more than $239 million. It was recovered off the coasts of Mexico, Central America, and South America by two U.S. Coast Guard ships in November, the USCG said in a press release.

The largest seizure, weighing more than 5,500 pounds, was recovered by Coast Guard Cutter Waesche on Nov. 20. It was found on a narco-submarine.

“Our last interdiction of a semi-submersible vessel was noteworthy since it was the first semi-submersible interdicted in the Eastern Pacific in over three years,” said Captain Robert Mohr, the commanding officer of the Waesche.

Coast Guard Cutter Waesche is a 418-foot-long National Security Cutter, a type of ship used to support maritime homeland security and defense missions. The ship is one of eight in its class operated by the Coast Guard, and has a home port in Alameda, California.

Coast Guard Active, a smaller ship assigned primarily to law enforcement and search-and-rescue missions, recovered nearly 4,000 pounds of cocaine from two of the six operations.


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