$1 Billion Smuggling Ship Nearly Got Away!
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This is no surprise for those of us that work in logistics. Tons of stuff is smuggled in containers and they only inspect a small percentage of them. Most stolen luxury cars also wind up in outbound containers. With 500k containers a month going through LA alone, it's pretty much impossible to stop.
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So true
It’s easier to blame a migrant crossing the border with only the clothes they carry for the drug problem
Ex uscg here, for every pound we found on the decoy vessels and containers, a thousand pounds got in. We found enough to make the numbers look good, the brass got the credit, and life continued on as normal.
@Mutanttaint everyone’s doing their job 🤣
Im not digging in bananas... That's where the spiders are busy chilling on their honeymoon cruise....
I know 2 guys that worked at a local grocery store in high school that were bit pulling bananas.
I got bit by a brown recluse spider in july I almost lost my foot I got a bone infection in my toe
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I worked for Kroger's warehouse in KY, in the banana room and I can confirm banana spiders were a legit concern.
So hide it in bananas. Gotcha
Mediteranean Shipping Company is also known in European ports as Mafia Shipping Company (MSC). Allthough their offices are in Switzerland the company hails out of Naples, Italy. Better known as Camorra land. The building of their (own) port of Gioia Tauro (in N'Drangheta land) has always been considered as a money laundering project. The same (a money laundering project) goes for their very quick rise as a shipping company.
It's not just their shipping company either, they are doing it on their cruise line too!
Had friends worked for them .they also called it shame as you. And said about stuff coming from south America apparently it's well know in company
Mafia Shipping Co. 😂
I remember when they seized that cargo! I'm from Philly and was on my way to the jersey shore when it went down. It had a massive negative impact on the city, I'm not saying it wasn't a good thing, but no one thinks about the negative aspects of such things. supplied a majority of Philadelphia and for as long as I can remember.
Ya ppl could t get coke i bet and got fake shit and then shot eachother plus addicts prob spent and robbed way more or got shit that killed then or had to have them hospitalized putting a huge strain on medical services for regular people. Not to mention other issues. drugs should just be legal and the and prevention should be the key. Stop glorifying I. Music etc. look how much smoking cigarettes has changed and how many non smokers there are now. Ppl look at you like a leper if you smoke these days. can’t even do it at alot of places and etc. it’s been removed from all ads movies tv etc. yet drugs and liquor is shown as cool and fun in movies still. Also ppl on opioids will just od or function. Methadone is literally worse for you than heroin. It’s gnarly shit. or create a new heroin with linger half life. it’s not like ppl aren’t using daily anyone that wants dope can still get it. and the cut is more dangerous than the actual drug alot of times. drugs are bad but there has to be a better way this isn’t working at all and makes criminals filthy rich. 😢
Largest container ships in the world. Owned by Mitch McConnell’s wife. Former transportation secretary under the first administration.
Curious spiderweb.
@@fjallingno it's not.
Pay attention to the people in Congress forever, regardless of party, and you'll notice an extremely concerning constant.
Corruption, it's spread wildly and has destroyed every facet of the entire US governmental body, local, state, and federal all alike have been destroyed in the pursuit of satiating an unwavering greed.
But people keep voting for the same corruption that's permanently damaged the US populace and global economy, all in the name of "fighting the man"
"We're the resistance" they say, with the backing of Google, Facebook, and Amazon for an example.
Astounding.
Didn't Trump Call her the Kung Fu lady? Also why did Trump hire her to his cabinet for his entire first term?
Maybe Trump is actually a Chinese mob boss who is wearing a silicone mask?
Waterline stories on Wednesday......thank you for this midweek treat! As Always Great content and delivery!
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As economist Milton Friedman has said with regard to drug prohibition, the role of government has been to protect the profits of the drug cartels.
If the goal is to increase the profitability & destructiveness of drugs, prohibition & interdiction is an excellent means to achieve it.
The reality of drug prohibition is that it INCREASES dangers to the public (particularly gun violence), fuels both the profits of organized crime & the corruption of government, all while being just as [in]effective as alcohol prohibition was in the 1920s.
Same as prohibition I guess.
By "drug cartels" & "protected profits", I take it he was referring to the long established dynasties that own & manufacture almost every brand of alcohol & liquor that the public is lawfully allowed access to, despite all of the proof repeatedly verifying that it is that product which causes the most harm above all others in every society & community it is used in. Alcohol very nearly causes as much widespread harm, at the expense of the majority, as Friedman & his buddy, Larry Summers, economic theories.
Bob Marley gave us the answer, in two words, many years ago.
If you consider the contamination issues with chemicals such as fentanyl & nitrazene, you don't have to be a genius to solve the problem. Tobacco & alcohol are examples of legally controlled substances, coke should be another LCS .
So sad if True.
Containerized shipping is such a standardized process, the cartels can easily switch shipping lines week to week without any interference.
My Dad worked for the MD Port Authority. He helped work with MD State Police on several sting actions.
0:23 "Gayane is as long as 3 football fields." Oh no, the American units of measurement are spreading.
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Good. Metric fails to convey practical contextual information. Also an American Football field and a European Football pitch are both generally 300 ft long (91.44 meters for all you redditors out there) since he was trying to provide general context as to the size of the ship, he picked the perfect unit of measurement as most people around the world will be familiar with the length of a football field/pitch.
@@boldgambit7896 Surely every one knows how long 100m is. If you have done sports at school you will have run 100m at least once in your life.
'Freedom units' are a legit metric to go by
@@boldgambit7896 man... the whole world understands and knows how 300m looks like, especially the europeans... but it is rather that the americans need to visualize 3 footbal fields...
Legend has it that the party that night was epic and the lines were long 🫠
That hilarious quip was worth way more that 6 likes. Well done!
I have done some stupidly long lines before. Very happy to not be around that stuff anymore.
Wonder how much 'Fetty' was gonna be mixed in before it was distributed.
Not forgetting that it’s probably between 75-90% pure when coming to the shore..
If you were to snort big lines at that purity you’ll probably cardiac arrest. Baby steps….. lol
They got that drip 😂
Those prices are ridiculous. I'm an expat living in Colombia. Street price for a g is between one and two dollars. As opposed to what.. $150?!! That's just nuts.
About 220 USD per G in New Zealand
Transport costs, paying people to look the other way, compensating for product loss, and paying people to think of more creative ways to transport the crud.
The drug subs are expensive and often only used once…….
im assuming the risk and costs of smuggling stuff in really brings up the price
A g in Germany is about 70-80€ on the street. Also the plugs selling it to you about double the price they paid 🤷♂️
In Ohio, 1 gram goes for around a 100, depending on source and the amount it is stepped on. Balls can go for around 225-250 on a good day.
American authorities aren't fighting with narco cartels to keep the drugs out of the country. They're fighting to keep a monopolistic position on the drug import market to make money themselves. (if you think all those "freedom fighters" in the middle east and elsewhere work for free, you're wrong) As an added benefit, there's nothing like a population high on drugs and brainwashed by propaganda to preclude any change and keep the gravy train rolling. Thank you, excellent work, as always.
You are one the few people that see that the so called war on drugs is just a farce. All governments use the drug trade to some extent to make money.
The public don't need illicit drugs to be ignorant and stupid, proof being all history where illicit drugs were not involved. Booze is worse (by mortality and morbidity stats not feelings)but where alcohol is popular the public don't consider it a drug but a tradition whose body count (far larger than illicit drugs) doesn't matter much.
Wise man 👨 👏
My thoughts exactly… did we just become best friends?
Right on MR@bojanperko
The CIA running drugs into the US has a bit of history. From the 1980's the CIA was smuggling 500 billion dollars per annum into the US to prop the US economy, that was insolvent by 2000. Another was the 10 million job loses to deindustrialization that disproportionately hit black communities.
We can't give then jobs, so let give them drugs and we better build more prisons that will be doing more business (Clinton). The most crooked drug laundering bank in the world and 'probably our local galaxy....(can't remember the zip)
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They used to weld compartments full of cocaine to the bottom of ships at one port and when that ship got to a particular port divers would be waiting and they would cut the compartment off the hull and collect the drugs.
Pays to be a diver
I remember talking to a UK customs agent years ago. He was saying many ships have mounting points fitted to them that the compartments / pods could just be bolted to. Much easier and faster than welding it. The mounting points could be installed on the quayside or in dry dock. As part of his display, he had a pod. It was well made and had standardised fittings so it didn't matter which ship was used to transport it. He did say it was more unusual to have a ship that *didn't* have mounting points on it.
(This was years ago).
for sure! Any diving is scary as heck. even the simplest level (snorkel?), it's cold and wet and needs uncomfortable kit just to do it. worse is being 100% surrounded in weird fishes and impossible to survive environment.... water! skilled and brave pays very well. but beligerence and a good accountant can be equally rewarding..and less wet lol.
@@ptonpc like pre-fab houses that were put together in the post WWII. modular style.
The add or remove modules as necessary sort of thing ?
This is also happening in Australia. Got big on the news because one of the divers died trying to retrieve the stuff, he was a regular diver guy paid by the cartel to get it.
Imagine if we could tax all that instead of financing international crime syndicates
Oh the EBITDA on that 🤣
Exactly. It's sickening to think of the billions spent on the "war on drugs" over the past 4 decades that haven't done a damn thing to stop the the supply of drugs to the US.
We are wasting billions AND missing out on huge tax revenue all while supporting violent criminals.
With no large crime syndicates there wouldn't be a need for a large police force. Who would protect the criminals in government then? It's a feature not a bug.
Right, but now buying weed in the US from a legal dispensary costs the same or more. In Colombia, a pound of weed is about $17.
@@cantfindmykeys comparing that seedy, inferior crap to Greenhouse grown just shows you know nothing.
A major strategy throughout all stages of drug smuggling is abusing large, high quantity, logistics networks with the primary goal being more "blend in" rather than "hide". I like to say that the single biggest drug dealer is the USPS
😂😂your not lyin
We used to pump powdered Barite through 6" hoses up to oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Set up those same hoses under the U.S./Mexico border and the Cartels could pump MILLIONS of kilos in a matter of hours. That's the next Cutting-Edge thing for the Cartels, if it hasn't been done already.
Dude! What an awesome idea
🤣 next level Technology
Lol! Aren't you clever!
Well if you're ever desperate for money. You know what to do.
@@cantfindmykeysthat was the storyline in the James Bond film Licence to Kill.
Cocaine is dissolved in petrol (gasoline) and driven over the border
When I was growing up I knew someone who would get supplied from a guy in the army. They used to bring a load of stuff back from Afghanistan.
And that was smart!
Opium? Well, isn't that why we sent troops there? Remember air America and stuffing body bags with yay..
@@RichardBaranair America, baby.
@@cantfindmykeys Opium and Hash. My friend was only involved with the hash.
Same in UK. back when we had troops in afghan with your guys- rumour has it was lots afghan black (hashish) on the market.
The MoD cottoned on to fact this side hustle was making up for a lance corporals rubbish pay in some cases- was a flurry of busts and trials of troops and aircrew and afghan black got much rarer (or so they say it did;))
But thats hobbyists on side not pro smugglers like the Columbian and Mexican narcos
Great! New WS video on a Wednesday! Thank you 😊
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As impractical as it would be, the shipping companies that transport the drugs were held at least partly responsible, perhaps they might be incentivized to screen some of the containers before loading.
You have never been on a ship Yard or seen the inside of a container. Your proposal is like inspecting each grain of sand on a beach, against the clock.
@@rhr-p7wthe math is exclusively on the side of the smugglers
Containers are sealed at loading, shipping companies have no idea what's in them other than what's on the paperwork. Also, shipping companies are largely extranatiolnal non-state actors, they really, really don't care what governments think and it's largely impossible to regulate them as most of their assets are in international waters.
If the seal is broken by anyone other than law enforcement, the shipping company is liable for any damages.
Lol. Coke will always come in. There's zero anyone or any government can do to stop it.
@@RichardBaran - exactly. profit margins are such that is enough money to bribe enough folks - you just cant stop human nature and huge piles cash
Legalize, regulate, educate and tax. Only way to "solve this issue"
It should be free. It's practically free here in Colombia so nobody needs to rob you to get some. Making something illegal just makes criminals rich.
Legalized gambling doesn't eliminate the bookie. And legalized gambling is a source of profits for those with connections.
Stop the cia from funding black ops with drug money, that would be a good start
No way legalizing deadly substances would solve any issues. Do you know how many families and people are destroyed by that?! When you legalize prostitution you can die from it only if you are dumb not to use a condom. With drugs there are no defense mechanisms...
True, but there are too many making the millions out of this business and some of them make the laws for the rest of us
Meanwille, I can't hide my wife's gift in our house without her finding it😂😂
Not behind the curtains again 🤭
Hey, Paul. Another fantastic video. 😊
Thanks Beverly. 👌🏻
To hear some people in the States talk about it, all drugs come across the Mexico border, but hey, wadda ya gunna do? Thanks again, Mate. Take care, fair winds.
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Depends. West coast has different routes than East coast. Different gangs. Asian gangs control the west, Mexican gangs south, etc.. you can look at a DEA trafficking route map and see how things are moved.
AS ALWAYS ANOTHER GREAT EPISODE thank you sir😂👍
Thanks mate.
Before I got a ship, I worked in San Francisco for a Japanese container ship company. The ships would sail in/ out of Oakland. Los Angeles and Seattle. I was a logistics coordinator and sometimes worked in the Documents dept. Working on bills of lading. Shippers would regularly intentionally lie about what they were shipping.
That's enough Coke to have kept Fleetwood Mac high for a whole year!
And it’s only worsened with fentanyl and its analogs, whose volumes are insanely small relative to cocaine.
Yay isn't nearly the monster fentanyl is.. and alcohol is the worst drug imo. Fentanyl has killed 3 of my friends. So far. I'm allergic to opiates but even if I wasn't, I wouldn't go near that toxic waste. Made in China..
Cops always overestimate the value of their drug bust
Worth 1bill when it's more like 10mill😅
Specifically they often give the "street value" which is the total amount broken into the smallest quantity of which it will sell. For example, they "value" 1000 kg as if sold in grams, instead of wholesale.
@@MSportsEngineering In Australia, drug valuations are often expressed in “points,” where one point equals one-tenth of a gram. When authorities seize methamphetamine, they frequently calculate the value of the bust at $100 per point, or $1,000 per gram. This estimation, however, is widely considered unrealistic, as actual street prices are typically much lower.
LOL. Theres been cases in Australia where people been busted growing Weed and the police weight includes the dirt and roots😂 .Then you have to fight to say it wasn’t 100kg it was only 10kg which is probably how they get a guilty plea
Lol depends what country in Australia it's worth a lot more👀
Before the Harrison Act cocaine and opium were legal in the US.
Organized crime didn't show up until the prohibition of alcohol.
For a few years you couldn't legally buy a beer but you could buy cocaine and opium.
Was America a hell scape of mindless junkies?
Not really.
One of the arguments for the Harrison act was people could be using drugs and no one else would be able to tell.
You are misinformed. Cocaine became regulated in 1907 by the A.M.A. and was the 1st year prescription medications were enacted
0:12 I assume this is the ship seized something like 5 years ago? Still gonna watch and hope there is at least new info.
Yup
Ship is owned by Goldman Sachs.
Wtf
Yaaay!! New vid ❤
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Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾
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I’m hearing the ship’s name and I’m like WHAT!
Many thanks Waterline Stories
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I lived in South West Philly when this happened, i95 was a nightmare and police and agents were everywhere.
I'll never forget this day!
Blink twice if you are in danger. OwO
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I'm looking forward to watching this when i get home. I just wanted to leave ya a comment. thank you, good sir
Enjoy
Like Vice says. Lets congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs. Or whatever
and both sides are kept in work! win win. the fishes feed themselves the fish food. both sides are fishes and both sides are fish food to the other: "Criss x Cross" as Danny Devito said in the movie "Don't throw momma from the train"
@@Palmit_ shame about the mid-level, or less, dealers or even people that arent criminals as such, they simply have in their "possession" a certain amount of a prohibited substance & get multi year prison sentences, right up to life sentences, when in a great many of those situations the crime is one of politics, with the users choosing to use, just as in car misuse & accidents, alcohol, cigarettes, low quality food & drinks, extreme & adventure sports, yada yada, etc, etc.....new solutions are required for an old problem. Not slamming a decent person's head into a wall & saying "drugs are bad, Mm'kay" & that's about as sophisticated as the Government likes to get. It's an approach that is an insult to society, because the reasons people even try any drug is so varied & in some communities, virtually inevitable, while the many answers & possible solutions to drug dependency, or just being caught with drugs the first time a person tries them, should be considered as failures & disastrous when the most common "assistance" or "help" provided by authorities is down a road of conviction & incarceration.
@@rougeneon1997 and like George Carlin said "These A-holes have a war against this, a war on that, why dont they ever have a war on homelessness?"
0:24 oh hey look, it's my city right there 😁 we've also had our fair share of issues with drugs on the port...
Prohibition doesn't work, and has never worked. not once.
legalize it, regulate it, tax the shit out of it, and invest in education for people to understand what they are using.
Nah, department of education is disappearing in 2025.
I know what you mean....My government prohibits drivers from driving their car at the speed they wish but people still speed.
The solution is clearly to just remove all speed limits and let people drive at the speed they desire.
You havent lossed anyone to drugs with that mindset. They already decriminalized drugs in certain regions in the US. Completely backfired
@@humble2246 They are prohibited yet you have lost someone to drugs. Clearly that isn't working.
@jekanyika as someone already said "speed laws don't work. So let's remove all speed limits"
Супер молодцы больше прозрачности больше найдёте Всем удачи добра с наступающими праздниками
😮 midweek Waterline ?! Submerge and binge 👍
I know, right. 🤣
15:36 It seems like the war has been won by drugs
It could be a "self-liquidating" solution, if sales were allowed and drug addiction not treated. Users would eventually all disappear . . . ?
The dea was mocked and then heavily questioned over this hit. Huge haul. But they hit it on the ship. Means they knew it was coming.
The early hit was what threw the switch in some heads. Whats more valuable a single huge shipment, or where its going that can handle and distribute shipments like that?
Waterline Stories is so well done.
50 million to release the ship.
We know who the criminals are.
The ship doesnt know whats in the containers
There seems to be this pervasive idea that Authorities will reach some point where they'll be able to claim that they are "winning the War on Drugs", that it can be achieved by targeting and eliminating core elements of Drug trafficking, that it can be irreparably crippled and finally gotten rid of once and for all.....
That would be disastrous for the governments. It would put all those people out of Work who are out there trying to find the stuff what we do with all those useless law-enforcement offices.
@Ginger-g8j
"Useless Law enforcement Officers" would just carry on doing what they've always done, they'd be slapping fictional charges on random people, planting contraband in Cars, and filling in the gaps with store-rooms full of "confiscated merchandise" from years of running in on, and relieving drug dealers of their stash....
Ha ha ha
It's a really good grift, hence the ongoing 'drug war' since ~1937.
An opportunity for racism and control, plus invisible or translucent income; what could be more American (+ megachurch style psuedo-chri$tian) than that?
This happened during Operation Trojan Shield, when the FBI owned the secure phone system that most cartels were using .
Damn
Another video!? He’s out of control! Dew dew dew deeeew!
Tis the season to be jolly 🎅☃️
@@waterlinestoriesAaand I’m done - another banger! We all wish for more videos this Christmas, sailor Santa!
@machenka 🤣 time to spread some more cheer around this holiday season. And a little misery too 🫣
Those seizures of cocaine are how the politicians get their cocaine without being associated with criminals. They are supposed to get the 10-15%, that is the payoff for 85%+ to get through.
Brought to you by the American Government
"Hey, Where's all this crack coming from?", a new film starring the CIA
I'm naming my band Billion Dollar Drug Ship, thanks.
Funny how nations from this region seem to have a financial problem, a leader fleeing, and a new direction in shipping north.
I hope you’re getting paid by the amount of ads I watched unbelievable
UA-cam is ramping up its aggressive advertising and inserting ads where the creator put none so it could be either at fault
get uBlock origins, I haven't seen an ad on UA-cam in years
I moved over to CleanTube. No more ads.
I haven't seen an ad on a UA-cam video in about 6 years use an adblocker
“War on drugs” Lol. 😅😅
Sunday afternoon Tijuana is a lovely town
Bullfight brings the tourists and
Their money flowing down
The border guards are much too busy
There at five o' clock
Henry's truckin' right on through
He hardly even stopped - New riders of the purple sage (Henry)
A different time and a different drug but its the same song.
US prices are more like $80 per gram and $240 for an 8ball. The previously named prices/figures were given to me by my friends cat.
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Just like weed it depends what part of the United States you seize the drugs in as to the street price .
@@kevinberger9854 fair enough. More specifically, my comment refers to prices in the general New England area.
Try 300 a gram in Oz and it's crap
Still cheaper than prescription drugs you don’t have to pay an insurance premium get a doctors appointment get insurance company to OK and go to the pharmacist and get them to give it to. Street drugs are just cheaper and easier cut out the middleman get rid of insurance and have fun.
This is what asset forfeiture was created for. Sees all their assets, and I mean the owner of the ship and the shipping company.
This is why we should legalize drugs like cocaine and XTC. Better to tax them to kingdom come then to spend ever increasing billions on trying to fight these drugs whilst the druglords are making billions producing them. I for one wouldn't mind seeing my tax money being spent more efficiently. And of course, prices would drop too if it were no longer illegal. Which is good news for the consumers!
Yes
Why tax? Just let people grow what they want. Then nobody gets rich from peddling drugs.
But it's the tax free situation that has your favourite billionaires running these cartels & distribution networks
@@UNcommonSenseAUS no, it's the control and illegality.
What a waste of coke. It's not like it's going to stop anything at all.
Exactly. Not only that, they report less than half of what they seize. 300 keys? 100 keys, really? Wow, they seized 20 keys.
@@cantfindmykeys they reportedly seized 20,000 kilos, you understand what a ridiculous amount that already is ?
@@Wackimir-Pootin It isn't ridiculous at all. Our crew had 10-15 of us 'sharing' 1 key, or more, each week. And that was only a fraction of Orlando/Orange Co, Fl appetite. I imagine 20 thousand bricks could prolly be consumed in a month, just in 20 cities comparable to Orlando, obviously a small fraction of this nation's appetite.
@@Wackimir-Pootin my point was that the authorities keep at least half of whatever they seize and report the remaining product.
@@here4gene100 seriously. David Crosby said he was using a half ounce or more daily by himself. And he's still alive, lol. But I think he switched to coffee after years of that. Ever see the old video for "8 Miles High"? Great tune. Watch it and pay attention to what's hidden in plain sight.
I was told by a chemistry professor that there is a way to dissolve cocaine in liquids and how to extract it, so hiding powder in the walls of a ship is kind of unprofessional.
Something about international smuggling (regardless of what it is) is so interesting. The money, logistics, distance, bribes, etc
Lol! Looks like this years New Years party is gonna be a drab affair!
I don’t know if it’s still being done but years ago they use to weld a torpedo looking metal tube, and filled it with drugs, and when it was in port a diver would drop it down on the bottom of the port, and would be picked up by another crew
the cartels actually notify the cops on a shipment, so that it is caught, so everyone looks good. In turn, the cops let the rest through.
Law enforcement dropped the ball on following the shipment to destination😂
Port Botany!!! Yeh lad
Maybe I'm missing something here.. #1 the size goes from 120kg ((264½lbs) aka $10.2 mil @$85,000/kg) to 3200lbs ((1451¼kg) aka $122.36mil @ $85,000/kg) and then finally 1 billion dollars worth? #2 the street value figures didn't seem to pencil out either, I'm just curious how those amounts were figured.. I like your shows because they're the facts for the most part, which is ultimately what i care about overall! Keep up the good work!
Fun fact: Beyond being liars, cops are also extremely shite at math!
the fact that they seized nearly 20,000 kilos?
Don't sweat the minutiae!
All you need to know citizen, is those Heroes sure took a Bite out of Crime.
Saving us all from those bad evil drugs and the dastardly villains ruining our pristine, morally righteous, society here in America, wont somebody please think of the children.
This is how millionaires become billionaires. 🌹⚓
Who ever paid for all that powder had a very bad day! 😅😂
I don't know what kind of coke they are on but 50-88 USD is a street price of coke in Europe.
Where do you store that much cocaine cocaine? Cocaine is like milk. If it’s not used, it will go bad just like any medication or drug It has a shelf-life.
so that means if that much cocaine is coming into this country and it is moving that fast and someone is willing to take the risk of moving that much cocaine at one time Imagine how much gets by that we don’t catch? 😮
Someone in the comment said imagine how much money we would get if we taxed all the drugs that were coming in from these people. I think that after 60 years of failed drug war policies and people going to prison for these drugs, lost families, etc. etc. I think an approach like that is better than what we are doing now.
Cocaine does not "go bad" or "expire" and it's nothing like milk. They move drugs in quantities that they can sell because it's production and transportation costs money up front. It's a business just like any other business.
just legalise the drugs and tax it, problem solved.
And you can see no down sides to this ?
No drug wars, taxation on a great scale, safe drugs sold in government chemists, street crime gone.
If people want drugs let them purchase clean checked drugs from a chemist.
No I don’t see a down side.
If people want them they will buy them.
Are you a cokehead?
@@Paulburnardyes you are totally right, but the big bosses don't want that
@APaulburnard as if legalising drugs will suddenly make all the drugged up losers become functioning members of society with jobs to pay taxes! 😂
It was 1/100th of the contraband on that ship alone. Get real.
Best part was they were able to cook it into rock form and 10x the money.
If you are paying 100 a gram you are getting ripped off lmao
Interesting content, and thank you for not trying to sound like anything other than the South African you clearly are. Too many Saffa you-tubers trying to sound like they aren't from here. Downright irritating.
🤣 well any which way you look at it. If you make videos you get shit for something. I’d rather get shit for saying things my way.
It’s not a secret. The biggest sea port in the world, Rotterdam , is the biggest world drugs distribution center.
You can't keep drugs out of prisons - no way to stop them all on ships......
just legalize it and stick a tax on it.
With the development of modern technology and transportation methods, drug trafficking is becoming a more difficult problem to solve than ever before. Instead of focusing solely on dismantling the networks, can countries cooperate to find long-term solutions such as education, legal reform and raising public awareness of the harmful effects of drugs?
The thing is, this is where most of the drugs coming to the end on the states they can search maybe one out of 100,000 containers and the drug cartels will actually tip people off with the shipments and then four or five other shipments go you know with $100 billion worth of cocaine
The governments could legalize and profit instead of fighting windmills, at the same time collapsing organized crime
Multiple generations just got eliminated overnight
Report corruption for rewards
I've been in liner shipping for decades and MSC has always been knows as Mafia Shipping Company
not "double the profits". Double the revenue, you're not taking into account costs of bringing to market
Imagine not paying the bribe for the years load! They paid every ships bribe except this one!
the distribution network is something i would love to see a video about
In S FL it’s $40/g. Maybe $100-$150 in New England or some really remote areas. But I believe around $60-$65 nyc and $80 north of there .
The biggest issue of course is that there is a demand! That’s a lot of blow!!
The Mob Reporter was on these stories.
Now, We have a vivid visual of how the Cackler wasted over
$1.5 Billion of money & yet she loses w/ a $20 Mil debt. geez!
Prohibition made Al Capone the equivalent of a billionaire today 😊
Makes sense how msc became the largest shipping company
When you walk thru the valley, you better watch your back...
230 year history ? Those guys that wrote the Declaration of Independence
We’ve seen busts like that before. Funny thing is though, if they caught, or were directed at that particular ship and containers, then that means that the really big shipment of probably 100-200 tons got through as they were inspecting that load and not another ship that either had docked already or was docking soon to offload their cargo. They don’t mind losing a big shipment if the alternative is the mother load to get through. So just imagine the size of that thing…… 💰💰🤑🤑
I bet, whoever sent that 1bil shipment, sent it- because they had yearly inventory coming and wanted to get rid of excess stuff, to space the time for counting.
Which tell me that 1bil for them is price of a pencil for me.