$40M in cocaine seized from semi on Illinois/Iowa state line
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This blows.
We’ve got the riverboats just sitting there ready to be used.
Love how the authorities still misrepresent the amount confiscated by stating the street value if broken up into the smallest quantity ever sold. The drug war really is a pathetic show.
the xmas party this year won't be nearly as fun.
They were delivering more than half a ton of cocaine and you’re pissed that the police may have misrepresented the value of it.
That’s fantastic.
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Build a wall and make East Dubuque pay for it.
Kilo is like $30k. They found ~500 kilo = ~$15MM
Drug cops have little man’s disease when they report the stats.
Canadian Sikhs funding their terrorist brethren. Canada is a hot mess.
Australian authorities seized over two tons of cocaine over the weekend worth nearly $500 million after the fishing boat that smugglers used to sail the drugs into Australia broke down — the largest ever seizure of cocaine in Australia.
Authorities announced Monday morning the country’s record-breaking bust and charges of conspiracy to import drugs against 13 people, including two minors.
The cocaine, if it had reached the community, equated to about 11.7 million individual street deals, the police said.
One of the arrested is the vice president of the Comanchero Outlaw Motorcycle Club’s Brisbane chapter, federal police said. Outlaw motorcycle gangs are organizations “whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits for criminal enterprise” such as violent crime and drug trafficking that can have a transnational scope, according to the Justice Department.
The investigation, named Operation Tyrrendor, began after authorities gained intelligence of a shared plan to import cocaine between an unnamed transnational criminal syndicate and the motorcycle gang.
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Authorities tracked a small recreational fishing boat as it sailed across east Australian seas to allegedly retrieve over 5,000 pounds of cocaine from a “mothership,” then turning around back to Queensland.
After collecting the drugs, the boat broke down around 18 kilometers northeast of K’gari Island, a sand island off the coast north of Brisbane. Accomplices who waited on the beach to collect the bundles were also arrested by authorities.
Global supply of cocaine is at record levels, according to a U.N. report published in 2023. Australia’s annual prevalence of cocaine use is the “highest worldwide by far,” according to the United Nations, though the amount consumed per person is likely relatively modest, it added.
The bust comes days after the Colombian Navy announced a recent international antidrug operation captured six “narco-subs” full of more than a thousand tons of illegal drugs between early October to mid-November, including one vessel carrying cocaine authorities suspected of setting sail to Australia.
Earlier this year, scientists found signs of the drug in sharks tested off the coast of Brazil.
“Investigations into the origin of the drugs remain ongoing,” said Australian Federal Police Cmdr. Stephen Jay of this week’s operation. “We will work with our international and domestic law enforcement partners to identify the criminal syndicates and anyone else involved in facilitating this alleged attempted drug import.”
Authorities announced Monday morning the country’s record-breaking bust and charges of conspiracy to import drugs against 13 people, including two minors.
The cocaine, if it had reached the community, equated to about 11.7 million individual street deals, the police said.
One of the arrested is the vice president of the Comanchero Outlaw Motorcycle Club’s Brisbane chapter, federal police said. Outlaw motorcycle gangs are organizations “whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits for criminal enterprise” such as violent crime and drug trafficking that can have a transnational scope, according to the Justice Department.
The investigation, named Operation Tyrrendor, began after authorities gained intelligence of a shared plan to import cocaine between an unnamed transnational criminal syndicate and the motorcycle gang.
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Authorities tracked a small recreational fishing boat as it sailed across east Australian seas to allegedly retrieve over 5,000 pounds of cocaine from a “mothership,” then turning around back to Queensland.
After collecting the drugs, the boat broke down around 18 kilometers northeast of K’gari Island, a sand island off the coast north of Brisbane. Accomplices who waited on the beach to collect the bundles were also arrested by authorities.
Global supply of cocaine is at record levels, according to a U.N. report published in 2023. Australia’s annual prevalence of cocaine use is the “highest worldwide by far,” according to the United Nations, though the amount consumed per person is likely relatively modest, it added.
The bust comes days after the Colombian Navy announced a recent international antidrug operation captured six “narco-subs” full of more than a thousand tons of illegal drugs between early October to mid-November, including one vessel carrying cocaine authorities suspected of setting sail to Australia.
Earlier this year, scientists found signs of the drug in sharks tested off the coast of Brazil.
“Investigations into the origin of the drugs remain ongoing,” said Australian Federal Police Cmdr. Stephen Jay of this week’s operation. “We will work with our international and domestic law enforcement partners to identify the criminal syndicates and anyone else involved in facilitating this alleged attempted drug import.”
