Coast Guard Top 10 Drug Busts Revised

The Coast Guard will be joined by its federal and international partners to discuss successful interdiction efforts and how those efforts are driving smugglers to adopt extreme tactics, including the use of expensive semi-submersibles, liquid cocaine, and indirect and dangerous sea routes. Some of the dramatic interdictions include:
• The Coast Guard and its partners interdicted more than 9,000 pounds of cocaine and 250 gallons of liquid cocaine in September 2007. Each gallon of liquid cocaine can be made into approximately 4.4 pounds of pure cocaine.
• In August, Coast Guard, Navy and Customs and Border Protection crews interdicted and boarded a self-propelled, semi-submersible vessel loaded with an estimated $352 million of cocaine.
• The Coast Guard made its largest maritime cocaine seizure when it intercepted the Panamanian vessel Gatun carrying more than 33,500 pounds of the narcotic -- or approximately 20 tons -- in March 2007.

The Coast Guard is the nation's leading maritime law enforcement agency and is charged with securing America's more than 95,000 miles of coastline.

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[Hooverdarnit]

Every time pot is taken off the street, the price of pot goes up and the use of meth goes up.

The REAL drug of choice is whatever is cheap and available.

Going after marijuana only helps tighten the death grip the alcohol industry has on this country and opens the door to more man made poison.

[sanderikati]

I´m 4 sure that more than half of it returns on the streets by the police itself...

I actually know 3 police officers who are the mayor drug sellers in my town...

[OnlinePokerCowboy]

RIP and uptmost respect for the mostly impoverished drug mules trying to make a buck who passed away in this video or in the past to deliver us our freedom and liberty.

Anybody who has smoked a joint or taken any illegal substance can never critizise these people, most likely including the judge.

[PyR0Star]

@Hooverdarnit well put

[kimfkd]

if your in a boat getting shot at by a police helicopter, you have made a few wrong choices in life hahaha

[MisterBicycle]

end the war on drugs now! Stop wasting precious tax dollars...

[forthedefence82]

Dear Coasties,

Thank you for having such a major impact on the flow of drugs into the United States!

Heroine, cocaine and weed's low price and high purity, as well as all these nifty videos, proves you all are doing a bang up job at winning the war on drugs.

[EvolvedParadigm]

if people want to use weed and coke... let em.

[GoldenSunz22]

@sanderikati 100% correct. they burn a few kilos on camera sell the rest. like i say . cocaine is water soluable...they could weigh photograph and throw into saltwater...sound crazy??? we did it with binladen

[Sept0pus]

@sanderikati sure you do

[Brownton4]

@keithbu Cause its not the movies kid.

[keithbu]

how come the criminals dont just use racing boats that go 230 mph, i mean come on they got millions