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50 kilos cocaine at Puerto Plata Airport
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Nice catch but now the chances of catching the people in Montreal are ruined. Should have kept it quiet and let the stuff or whatever they replaced it with go through.
The supply is reduced meaning the price of the stuff that got through goes up. Means more crime to pay for it.
IMO, more lives and families get wrecked.
Drugs are not what is bad.
The crime to get drugs is what's bad.
I'll agree with the first part of what you say cobraboy but drug addiction wrecks lives and tears families apart, as do many other addictions of course!
It's the maximum one is allowed to bring along in checked baggage without paying for excess luggage.
Actually, it would have been about 10% over the max... as it now usually is two suitcases of 50Lbs each. They could have been asked to re-stuff some into their carry-on. :bunny:But then, this was apparently a cargo shipment. Still, for sneaking something onto a commercial airplane, it's not peanuts. The street value in a developed country could reach from USD 4'000'000.oo up to USD 15'000'000.oo, depending on how it is sold (source: The Bermuda Police's street value calculator)
To some, quite worth the risk, especially when the risk is usually deflected first on the marionettes in the game.
Knowing you a little bit, I am inclined to believe you tried to say something there which failed to come thru in your post, Cobraboy... but the way it reads, I'd have to join in with Black Dog's remarks here.
... J-D.
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The people behind this need not worry about luggage limits: :tired:
Militares y civiles bajo prisi?n por complicidad en env?o de coca?na - Hoy Digital
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The people behind this need not worry about luggage limits: :tired:
Militares y civiles bajo prisi?n por complicidad en env?o de coca?na - Hoy Digital
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The civilians involved who have been given a one year remand in custody, include a Canadian woman:
JUZGADO DE INSTRUCCION IMPONE UN A?O DE PRISION PREVENTIVA IMPLICADOS DECOMISO COCAINA AEROPUERTO GL
Un a?o de prisi?n a implicados en 50 kilos coca incautados en PP
JUZGADO DE INSTRUCCION IMPONE UN A?O DE PRISION PREVENTIVA IMPLICADOS DECOMISO COCAINA AEROPUERTO GL
Un a?o de prisi?n a implicados en 50 kilos coca incautados en PP
is this treatment reserved for folks arriving from USA or canada? i have travelled to POP from london and to SDQ from madrid and paris and i have never seen any dogs nor the police nor anyone checking luggage. heck, i could stroll in with maletas full of coke, uranium and TNT and no one would bat an eyelid.
STREET value in a developed country like the US, CAN, EU.
"Official" (police) online sources, would suggest that 50Kg (50'000gr) could, depending on how it is sold (to dealers in ounces, to coke snorters in 1/2gr doses or as crack) USD 4 to 15 Million respectively.
Just do a search for "cocaine street value" on most search any engine.
Obviously, this can be a couple of 100 percents higher than the wholesale value while still here.
Yeah I know, I even smuggled a pedal steel guitar into the DR once! Almost unnoticed.
Really, there is not so much a trend of smuggling retail quantities of drugs INTO the DR through airports going one. IF a "mule" really brought dope from Miami or Madrid into POP, it must have been so high on that stuff that it had snorted it all up anyway which sent the mule to stagger onto the wrong flight. :tired:
Really, it's drugs being smuggled OUT of the DR which seem to be the issue. Yes, at times they have the dogs out sniffing around the check-inn lobby, but I suspect it may more be meant to impress the onlookers. But I understand that they have to check things behind the "curtains". I also observed once that they have quite a protocol when it comes to load an AA airplane with cargo and even luggage. Security guards checking each other, and especially the ones allowed in for anything they could carry onto the airplane before they were allowed to board the cargo area.
... J-D.
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Steady Beads, that's almost admitting that you WOULD try it through other airports LOL
To earn 5-10 million USD cash for a few hours of work plenty of people would think about it. My point was simply that it seems like a 100% chance you would be caught if you tried.
Value in Small Packages
Just to clear this up a little..
Pure cocaine is cut with inert ingredients 3, 4 or 5 times before it is sold on the street. When wrapped as it was in Puerto Plata I'm sure it was pure. The dealers cut it as it is shipped down the line.
Just to clear this up a little..
Pure cocaine is cut with inert ingredients 3, 4 or 5 times before it is sold on the street. When wrapped as it was in Puerto Plata I'm sure it was pure. The dealers cut it as it is shipped down the line.
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