Cocaine

Here were some of the largest Coast Guard drug busts so far.

Most of the time, history talks about how the soldiers were nourished with nutrient-packed chocolates and biscuits, providing them with coffee or cigarettes but the use of drugs in warfare to help increase their performance was a detail usually left out. 

Leslie Socolov has gone viral for her anti-Semitic rant, but she got off scot-free for killing decorated Green Beret Richard Flaherty in 2015.

Coast Guard marksmen aboard Navy helicopters firing on suspected smugglers “is a daily event,” the head of US Southern Command said in January.

It is likely that the CJNG will destabilize specific regions in Colombia to increase the flow of drugs through Mexico in the next 12 months.

The 2017 World Drug Report reveals that two-thirds of all cocaine smuggled between South America and Europe cross the West African countries.

The DEA announced on Tuesday the results of the hard work conducted by the San Diego Tunnel Task Force (SDTTF). SDTTF uncovered a vast cross-border drug-smuggling tunnel that extends from Mexico into a warehouse in a commercial complex in the Otay Mesay area of San Diego. SDTTF is comprised of federal agents from the Drug […]

Genaro García Luna, who previously served as Mexico’s security minister, has been arrested in the United States. He is accused of having accepted bribes from the Sinaloa drug cartel. According to prosecutors, García Luna gave drug traffickers both safe passage as well as information in exchange for millions of dollars. García Luna served as public […]

The U.S. Coast Guard announced this week that they made yet another open-ocean sub bust last month. This time the semi-submersible vessel contained nearly $69 million worth of cocaine. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane reportedly intercepted the drug-smuggling vessel in the Pacific Ocean after it was spotted by maritime patrol aircraft. Once on board, […]

Earlier this month, the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant intercepted a 40-foot long semi-submersible vessel carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine and four smugglers. Vessels of that sort, commonly referred to as “narco subs,” travel while almost completely submerged in order to limit detection from the sea. As a result, the Coast Guard and American law enforcement […]

The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded a massive haul of seized drugs in San Diego on Thursday, including a total of more than 39,000 pounds of cocaine and 933 pounds of marijuana worth a combined estimated $569 million. All of the drugs were seized in international waters during routine operations in the Eastern Pacific. Vice President […]

The price of Arabica coffee beans is expected to rise sharply during 2019. According to a Reuters poll of nine coffee experts, the price shift will likely come from the global coffee deficit which is expected to hit markets as Brazil begins a smaller year of harvesting. By the winter of 2019, experts predict the price […]