Nearly One Tonne Of Cocaine Seized In International Police Operation

Nearly One Tonne Of Cocaine Seized In International Police Operation

www.europol.europa.eu

Almost one tonne of coc aine and 160 kg of hashish have been seized in an international police operation led by the Spanish Civil Guard and coordinated by Europol.

The huge consignment of coc aine was diluted in 13 tonnes of palm oil that had been shipped from Colombia, via Antwerp in Belgium, before being finally seized in Albania.

In total, 22 members of an international criminal drugs network, some of them key "head" figures, have been arrested under this operation.

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Finally I can say I'm impressed with an International Law Enforcement agency.

I've never supported the "War on Drugs" here in America.

Not because of any misplaced love for drugs.

I detest drugs.

But because I see it as if you're not going after the source you're wasting your time.

The source is not the street hoodlum.

The source is not the drug lord.

The source is not the drug kingpin.

The source is the Golden Triangle.

The source is the Golden Crescent.

The source is Columbia.

If you're only going after the middlemen you're only half-fighting.

You're only playing a game of tiddlywinks with the taxpayers money.

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From January through June 2007, the average price per pure gram of all domestic coc aine purchases increased 24 per cent, from $95.89 to $118.70, while purity fell 11 per cent, from 67 per cent to 59 per cent.

DEA

So an even $105 per GRAM times 907 184.74 (grams in a ton) = ~$95 million dollars worth.

I think I did the math right. Even if I'm off a couple million dollars, that's ridiculous.

reply to post by isthisreallife


Glad someone is keeping track of the value through narcoenomics.

Personally, I see coc aine as worthless as used toilet paper, but I don't use it.

I would just as soon push all of the worlds coc aine into the Marianas Trench.

It is worthless as far as I'm concerned.

reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas

I don't use it either, nor will I ever use it.

It is considered the most psychologically addictive substance on Earth. Do you realize how many lives INTERPOL just saved in this operation? Not just physically, through overdose, but emotionally.

I also don't agree with the War on Drugs in America, but this is a good day.

Originally posted by isthisreallife
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas

 

I don't use it either, nor will I ever use it.

It is considered the most psychologically addictive substance on Earth. Do you realize how many lives INTERPOL just saved in this operation? Not just physically, through overdose, but emotionally.

I also don't agree with the War on Drugs in America, but this is a good day.

I've done a lot of thorough digging.

The Drug Enforcement Administration only has a national Law Enforcement charter.

Meaning they can arrest and or act within America.

Internationally they can only act as an Intelligence-Gathering operation.

Unless they get special permission to have a covert operation outside of America.

So, in essence, they are useless, internationally.

The sources of the drugs are in international and national boundaries.

I guess the international bodies of different countries got tired of waiting.

Good for Europol.

Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas

Originally posted by isthisreallife
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas

 

I don't use it either, nor will I ever use it.

It is considered the most psychologically addictive substance on Earth. Do you realize how many lives INTERPOL just saved in this operation? Not just physically, through overdose, but emotionally.

I also don't agree with the War on Drugs in America, but this is a good day.

I've done a lot of thorough digging.

The Drug Enforcement Administration only has a national Law Enforcement charter.

Meaning they can arrest and or act within America.

Internationally they can only act as an Intelligence-Gathering operation.

Unless they get special permission to have a covert operation outside of America.

So, in essence, they are useless, internationally.

The sources of the drugs are in international and national boundaries.

I guess the international bodies of different countries got tired of waiting.

Good for Europol.

I know I had many friends whose parents worked in the DEA when I lived in Washington, DC as a kid. Their parents would go out of town for a few days to Columbia or the Netherlands.

I had a friend whose dad later was in charge of the LA field office and he would tell me that he worked extensively with foreign police agencies. Although they couldn't arrest they would do alot of "supervising" or surveillance.

So if the DEA doesn't do international search and seizures on the behalf of the US government, who does?
Interpol?

From what I understand about the truer findings in the Gulf of Mexico where in the past decades it is rumored to have been a direct port for large quantities of coc aine, the abandoned, lost packages were sent to the bottom where they would have still been lying, however the coreexit was corrosive to the packaging and therefore all of that released into the Gulf creating an even greater enviromental event than had the oil and coreexit been the only problems to deal with...

The mix of coc aine and coreexit was never anything even remotely considered in any of the preliminary lab tests for enviromental safety...

Soo, here we go again with a new direction and path which will gain see the same problems as we here in the US are dealing with.

coc aine is a very dangerous drug. probably the most addictive short of injecting heroin.

if its a ton of pure coke (very unlikely to ever be sold as 100% pure), broken down into .5 gram bags and sold on the street, you'd get about $7,000 ish per ounce. about 224 million for all of it. if its sold in bulk, considerably less would be made.

thats a lot of lives wasted. i've seen it first hand. truly horrible. hopefully they get rid of it and don't try to turn a profit for their own gain.

Originally posted by isthisreallife
So if the DEA doesn't do international search and seizures on the behalf of the US government, who does?
Interpol?

No one operates internationally towards taking out international drug sources.

Not on behalf of the U.S. Government or American people.

If anyone were to do anything towards the international issue it would be the U.N.

Quote from : Wikipedia : United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is a United Nations agency that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna.

It is a member of the United Nations Development Group and was renamed the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2002.

So, technically, they do nothing or they would have Peacekeepers doing it.

reply to post by antar


That is nothing but hearsay, speculation, and utter bunk.

Sorry.

I'm offended you even tried to pass that off as information.

Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas

Finally I can say I'm impressed with an International Law Enforcement agency.

I've never supported the "War on Drugs" here in America.

Not because of any misplaced love for drugs.

I detest drugs.

But because I see it as if you're not going after the source you're wasting your time.

The source is not the street hoodlum.

The source is not the drug lord.

The source is not the drug kingpin.

The source is the Golden Triangle.

The source is the Golden Crescent.

The source is Columbia.

If you're only going after the middlemen you're only half-fighting.

You're only playing a game of tiddlywinks with the taxpayers money.

www.europol.europa.eu
(visit the link for the full news article)

edit on 5/31/11 by SpartanKingLeonidas because: Adding Depth and Insight Into the Post.

Absolutely love how you put that.....and great thread

reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas


If you dont have the street people, you dont have a sale...

That is why at some point they changed direction and began going for the user rather than the big fish...

reply to post by Bob Sholtz

thats a lot of lives wasted. i've seen it first hand. truly horrible. hopefully they get rid of it and don't try to turn a profit for their own gain.

I've often wondered ,how much of what they seize ,goes back into someones pocket, via redistribution.

reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas


OK, I will now gracefully bow out...

Good thing you did not shout "Proof!"... "Evidence!"

LOL!

Originally posted by antar
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas

 

If you dont have the street people, you dont have a sale...

That is why at some point they changed direction and began going for the user rather than the big fish...

Most of the real customers for coke are not "street people". There are some who hold high positions in education, law, government,as well as in the entertainment industry.

If none of the "street" people did coke,it would still be a flourishing business.

(but then again..I could have easily misunderstood what you meant by street people)

Originally posted by antar
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas

 

If you dont have the street people, you dont have a sale...

That is why at some point they changed direction and began going for the user rather than the big fish...

Foot soldiers can be easily replaced.

The drugs can even be easily replaced, speaking of packages of coc aine, the "product".

If you will.

If however you go after the source of that "product" to shut it down?

The source cannot be replaced so easily.

They would have to move to a new location, set up land, farm it, etc.

If the D.E.A. focuses only on national issues and sources it is nearsighted.

Or possibly it is the entire structure of Government.

From the Justice Department to the White House and including the State Department.

If you're going to call it a War on Drugs you have to actually be at a state of war.

Otherwise it is nothing more then an operation, taskforce, or any other catchy name.

Originally posted by antar
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas

 

OK, I will now gracefully bow out...

Good thing you did not shout "Proof!"... "Evidence!"

LOL!

Bow out or do not.

That is up to you.

But, based upon your very own post, you claimed it was rumored.

A rumor is uncorroborated information.

Hearsay is spreading someone else's opinion.

And or it is spreading only part of someone's opinion which misleads people.

Ever heard of the game of Chinese Whispers?

Quote from : Wikipedia : Chinese Whispers

In the game variously known as Chinese whispers, telephone, grapevine, broken telephone, whisper down the lane, gossip,secret message, Le téléphone arabe (French for "Arab phone"),[citation needed] Stille Post (German for "Silent Post"), Gioco del Telefono (Italian for "Telephone Game"), Telefono senza fili (Italian for "Cordless Phone"), Telefone sem fio (Portuguese for "cordless phone"), Głuchy Telefon (Polish for "dumb telephone") and pass the message, the first player whispers a phrase or sentence to the next player.

Each player successively whispers what that player believes he or she heard to the next.

The last player announces the statement to the entire group.
Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly, and often amusingly, from the one uttered by the first.

The game is often played by children as a party game or in the playground.

It is often invoked as a metaphor for cumulative error, especially the inaccuracies as rumours or gossip spread, or, more generally, for the unreliability of human recollection.

In the United States, "telephone" is the most common name for the game.

The name "Chinese whispers" reflects the former stereotype in Europe of the Chinese language as being incomprehensible.

It is little-used in the United States and may be considered offensive.

However, it remains the common British English name for the game.

You were the victim of that.

I just expected better information from you.

Which is why I got offended.

reply to post by Bob Sholtz


The only problem I have with anyone's math on the price of this is the insanity of it.

Due to drugs being made illegal it makes the black market value skyrocket.

Meaning something which was once worth $1 is now worth $1,000.

This is due to the system of how the black market works.

Make something illegal and its value only increases.

This is simple psychology and using reverse psychology to make it more of an issue.

And I in no way support legalization or decriminalization.

If they legalized or decriminalized it I still would not use it.

I do however see a bigger problem.

The Prohibition did not work in regards to alcohol.

This is nothing more than Prohibition II when it comes to the War on Drugs.

When it comes to America.

Our foreign and domestic policy are sadly not working towards a common goal.

When it comes to drug crime.

Prohibition only made alcohol a black market commodity the same as drugs are now.

If you make a "product" illegal a market will be found for it.

And thereby you only create a larger problem with never solving the problem itself.

Hence you are not trying to solve anything you're only trying to give validation to funding.

Nothing more than a means to screw the American taxpayers out of the money in Treasury.

IMO It's incedible how long it takes to bust these pushers,, although a Ton is a lot ..

But its always availble and it never seems to end ,,.. every once in awhile they have a big bust .. and it dont even really make the national news .. it never aired up here in on my channel .. I just think ether this is really no longer a huge thing like in the past and now a ton really aint nothing these days . whats next geesh?