slacker Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Irregular News for 03.23.07 Panama City, Panama -- Panamanian police seized a boat off the nation's Pacific coast carrying 21.4 tons of cocaine in one of the biggest maritime cocaine busts anywhere on record, officials said Monday. National police working with agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency seized the boat on Sunday near the island of Coiba, said a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record. Police arrested 12 men on the boat, including Mexicans and Panamanians, and another two suspects in Panama City in connection with the drugs, the official said. The boat, which was sailing under a Panamanian flag, was being transported to Panama City on Monday, he said. Drug cartels often smuggle Colombian cocaine along Panama's Pacific coast en route to the United States. In 2004, the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy seized 28 tons of cocaine from two fishing boats off the coast of the Galapagos Islands in what State Department officials then called their largest seizures ever during a one-week stretch. In 2005, police in southwest Colombia seized 15 tons of cocaine from a jungle stronghold, in what national authorities called the largest haul ever on their soil. source Quote Link to comment
BIGREDIOWAN Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 That's a lot of powder!!! Quote Link to comment
AR Husker Fan Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I saw a newscast about this - as I recall, they didn't really try that hard to even hide it. The blow was in barrels on the deck or something like that. Quote Link to comment
BIGREDIOWAN Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I saw a newscast about this - as I recall, they didn't really try that hard to even hide it. The blow was in barrels on the deck or something like that. I don't know as you could successfully hide that much!!! Quote Link to comment
pigsonthewing Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 a lot of yuppies will be disappointed and cranky tonight. Quote Link to comment
Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 And I always though Columbia's cheif export was coffee..... Quote Link to comment
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