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From http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp...=1&id=35812

ALAMEDA --

About 20 tons of cocaine -- seized in the largest maritime bust in U.S. history with a street value of $500 million -- was unloaded under heavy guard Monday at Coast Guard Island in Alameda County.

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Charley Diaz said the bust took place in the waters off Panama last month.

"The bust was pretty amazing," Diaz said. "We were told to go identify a vessel that had been spotted by a Coast Guard C-130. We found the vessel and sent a boarding team aboard. There were some inconsistencies between what the master was saying was in the containers and what the crew manifest said."

"We searched the vessel -- The first two containers we looked in were piled high with cocaine."

In all, the crew found 765 bales -- weighing about 50 pounds a piece -- stacked neatly on the Panamanian freighter.

"The crew is ecstatic," Diaz told KTVU. "It's the largest drug bust in U.S. history… It's not something you do every day."

Diaz said there was no resistance from the crew of the freighter.

The bust came during the Coast Guard cutter Sherman's three-month voyage for eastern Pacific law enforcement in the waters off of Central and South America.

Diaz said the drugs were to be flown to Miami where the Drug Enforcement Agency will dispose of them.

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Figured I'd put this up as I'm most likely applying for the Coasties once the CR1 comes through, and this kind of work would be awesome to get involved with! :thumbs:

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whoa...that is allot of crack

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WOW!!! $500 Million dollars of revenue is lost!!! What a waste! LOL!

Looks like the drug dealers will need to file for bankruptcy.

Yeah, someone's going to die for this.

:yes: Probably a lot of someones.

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