|
 veggie
Registered: 07/25/04
Posts: 13,985
|
 Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine 
#3979943 - 03/28/05 10:19 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine
March 28, 2005
reuters.com
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian police found a homemade submarine capable of carrying $200 million worth of cocaine on a Pacific Ocean smuggling mission, police said Friday.
Police, who acted on a tip, made no arrests after finding the submarine hidden in the port of Tumaco, near the border with Ecuador, the Administrative Security Department detective force said.
It was the second publicized case of Colombian drug smugglers trying to use submarines. In 2000, another underwater vessel was found far from the coast in the Andean mountain capital, Bogota.
"They started building the submarine about six months ago, using small pieces so as not to make people suspicious. They wanted to have it ready for Easter because they thought the police would drop their guard," said Eduardo Fernandez, head of the DAS in the southern province of Valle del Cauca.
He did not say where the submarine appeared to be headed or how far it could travel. The vessel had the capacity to carry 10 tons of cocaine, which could be worth from $200 million to $300 million on U.S. streets.
Colombia's drug smugglers are always looking for ways of getting cocaine and heroin into big markets such as the United States and Europe. Methods include having people known as "mules" swallow drugs wrapped up in condoms, or hiding cocaine or heroin in cargo such as dog food.
Funds from cocaine help buy bullets for Marxist rebels and far-right paramilitary outlaws fighting a four-decade-old war, which claims thousands of lives a year. Colombia is the world's largest producer of cocaine and a major supplier of heroin to the United States.
|
 faslimy
Dead Man
Registered: 04/03/04
Posts: 3,436
Last seen: 1 month, 15 days
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: veggie]
#3980628 - 03/28/05 01:53 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
veggie said:
Funds from cocaine help buy bullets for Marxist rebels and far-right paramilitary outlaws fighting a four-decade-old war, which claims thousands of lives a year. Colombia is the world's largest producer of cocaine and a major supplier of heroin to the United States.
yes.. they know this how?
Edited by faslimy (03/28/05 02:29 PM)
|
derx
who run it
Registered: 05/29/03
Posts: 2,459
Loc: dx/dt
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: faslimy]
#3981039 - 03/28/05 03:53 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
havent you seen the damn commercials on tv? if you buy ANY illicit drug, you are sponsering terrorism.
--------------------
better living through chemistry
OVERGROW the government!!
it's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom, ok, thats what it is.
|
RandalFlagg
Stranger
Registered: 06/15/02
Posts: 15,608
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: faslimy]
#3981442 - 03/28/05 05:48 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
veggie said:
Funds from cocaine help buy bullets for Marxist rebels and far-right paramilitary outlaws fighting a four-decade-old war
fasliny said:
yes.. they know this how?
It's common knowledge. The Marxists (FARC) protect the drug smugglers and even supposedly engage in drug dealing of their own. FARC gets money from doing this which funds their civil war against the Colombian government.
|
roby000
me
Registered: 02/28/05
Posts: 9,173
Loc: nazi poland
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: RandalFlagg]
#3982232 - 03/28/05 08:30 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
no not any drug
just coke and heroin and sometimes opium. they all come from all over however colombia is the largest coke producing country and it is controlled (it being the coke trade) by the farc which is a huge rebel terrorist group. so yes coke funds terrorism no questions. it is a fact.
|
Seuss
Error: divide byzero
Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 23,193
Loc: Caribbean
Last seen: 15 hours, 6 minutes
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: RandalFlagg]
#3984080 - 03/29/05 02:18 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
It's common knowledge. The Marxists (FARC) protect the drug smugglers and even supposedly engage in drug dealing of their own. FARC gets money from doing this which funds their civil war against the Colombian government.
Of course, if drugs were legal, the value of the cocaine would drop to zero on the black market... it really isn't the drug users that are supporting the FARC, but our own lawmakers.
--------------------
Just another spore in the wind.
|
roby000
me
Registered: 02/28/05
Posts: 9,173
Loc: nazi poland
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: Seuss]
#3984684 - 03/29/05 09:14 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
ahmen.
|
Cloud9
I don't feel, and it feels great
Registered: 07/03/03
Posts: 1,261
Loc: between here and there
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: Seuss]
#3985934 - 03/29/05 02:07 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Seuss said:
Quote:
It's common knowledge. The Marxists (FARC) protect the drug smugglers and even supposedly engage in drug dealing of their own. FARC gets money from doing this which funds their civil war against the Colombian government.
Of course, if drugs were legal, the value of the cocaine would drop to zero on the black market... it really isn't the drug users that are supporting the FARC, but our own lawmakers.
Nice way to put it.
--------------------
|
DNKYD
Turtle!
Registered: 09/23/04
Posts: 12,197
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: veggie]
#3985976 - 03/29/05 02:27 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
We all live on a cocaine submarine, a cocaine submarine, a cocaine submarine....
|
zerozero
Stranger
Registered: 08/31/04
Posts: 782
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: DNKYD]
#3986141 - 03/29/05 03:32 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
ahahahahha DN....
i like how they compare some idiot swallowing a couple of trojans full of blow, to the kind of idea as building a fuckin submarine( that's out of a bond movie it think.) a few grams or 10 tons, almost the same.
|
Randolph_Carter
НơĻ?ĢΉōsŧ
Registered: 06/13/00
Posts: 29,281
Loc: Shroomery B-list.
Last seen: 2 years, 8 days
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: zerozero]
#3989809 - 03/30/05 10:08 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
If i recall, the 2000 sub was a Kilo class.
--------------------
"..all those molecules thrashing their kinky little tails, hot for destiny and the street." Gibson
Nuke baby seals for Jesus!
(This has been a +1 production.)
|
ShroomOmatic
Ethno Apprentice
Registered: 10/14/04
Posts: 2,373
Loc: Sailing the Seas of Chees...
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: veggie]
#3990396 - 03/30/05 12:18 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Interesting story veggie very good. Just goes to show how far some people will go to smuggle drugs.
-shroomOmatic
--------------------
|
ZippoZ
Knomadic
Registered: 06/17/03
Posts: 12,096
Loc: Pongyang, North Korea
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: ShroomOmatic]
#3991551 - 03/30/05 04:14 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
i always said that subs were the way to go, wonder how they got caught...
--------------------
PEACE
 zippoz
"in times of widespread chaos and cofusion, it has ben the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m anagment, too much programming and controll, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"
"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
|
LethalX5
Stranger
Registered: 01/07/05
Posts: 2,174
Last seen: 10 months, 22 days
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: ZippoZ]
#3992249 - 03/30/05 06:58 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
zippoz said:
i always said that subs were the way to go, wonder how they got caught...
Quote:
Police, who acted on a tip, made no arrests after finding the submarine hidden in the port of Tumaco
--------------------
"To get what you've never had, You must do what you've never done."
|
SuperD
Lophophiend
Registered: 10/05/03
Posts: 5,186
Loc: My stash box
|
Re: Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine [Re: LethalX5]
#3998055 - 03/31/05 09:45 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
LethalX5 said:
Quote:
zippoz said:
i always said that subs were the way to go, wonder how they got caught...
Quote:
Police, who acted on a tip, made no arrests after finding the submarine hidden in the port of Tumaco
loose lips sink ships, or in this case..submarines 
--------------------
I'd like you to meet my local drug dealer 
Bruce Campbell for a day! said: Go misidentify a mushroom please.
I'm a psilovibin' psilocybeing 
|
|
Previous
Index
Next
Threaded
Edit 
Reply 
