B — [/B]Federal authorities seized about 16½ tons of cocaine Tuesday from a large ship at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, prosecutors said.
Members of the ship’s crew were arrested and federally charged. The investigation is ongoing, said a tweet form US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
It’s the largest seizure in the district’s history, the office said.
A kilogram of cocaine sells for about $28,000, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2016 estimate. At that price, sold by the kilo, the drugs would be worth more than $419 million.
drugs move from one territory to the other, each territory has it’s own Boss, and if shit happens within a given territory, then the Boss of that territory, owns up.
That what happened, when drugs were confiscated on the Kenyan coast. A certain boss was paying hefty amounts weekly , to offset the losses.
I doubt. Law enforcement agencies have a large workforce to be totally distracted by one shipment. They can even run 10 sting operations simultaneously. Huko sio Kenya. Plus, a $419 million shipment is a little too big to be used as a decoy. If anything, I’d say they missed the decoy and got the real thing.
$419 million is too much money, even in the USA. The Nexus Sawgrass real estate project costed $90 million, and it is a monstrous project. Now imagine 4-5 times that.
that was one in many baskets,perhaps a carrot on a stick;);)i bet someone ‘snitched’,cops fell for it while a bazillion tonnes is parked right next to that ship,bail money for the ship guys will be set in no time and the coke will go back into the streets.its the american dream