Cocaine cowboys: Inside the US Coast Guard's war on drugs | ABC News
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imagine you are on a submarine and someone knocks on the hatch
pull the nades
i will say nuck nuck who is it
DIVE DIVE DIVE
@Black Wolf hey genuis, the comment i replied to said submarine, not semi sub. Also it was a joke. Take ur negative b.s. somewhere else keyboard warrior
Dive down and drown them
"All suspects detained on Coast Guard vessels have regular access to medical treatment, personal hygiene products, toilet and shower facilities, adequate shelter from the elements, and regular meals."
I can personally attest that this is 100% accurate. Our cutters have barely enough room for the crews themselves but we take very thorough measures to ensure our detainees and migrants are safe and cared for as best as we can manage.
Everyone I know in the Coast Guard joined to SAVE LIVES and help protect our nation from people who break our laws. We're not out there to make people suffer.
That and it’s not floating Hilton.
I can attest to that also as I get it first hand from my son in the coast guard. More than these drug runners deserve.
who needs lefty human rights lawyers really. these guys are drug smuggling
Just think if the ACLU was in charge of the U.S. what a mess the place would be..
RESPECT for the CG!
U.S. Coast Guard is the most underrated military branch
Yeah there’s a lot ppl make fun with them
When you realize they are actually part of homeland security
They let the drugs in
Yeah the bath tub navy dose its part.
Not military buddy.
bro imagine how high the fishes got after they dumped the coke overboard
Just imagining all the local sharks having a rave 🤣😂😎
They don't get high cuz the bails of yayo aren't busted open to sea
hahaha!
🤔🤨😒🙄😬😔🤢🤮🤧😟🙁☹😭😤😠🤬😭
@@edalvarez7834 wooooosh
i bet coast guard parties are carzyyyy
All the coasties I know all get fucked up on all sorts of drugs.
kevin lozada piss off moron
😄
Bet they all have nicknames for each other like , Hoover and snowman etc 😂😂🙈🙈🦄🦄
Bet it snows alot where they are haha
Imagine smuggling drugs then seeing a freakin air craft carrier
Not a carrier, a coast guard cutter
Jarvis Addison cutters are sexy
I wish they just run then over 🤣🤣🤣
Daniel Gonzalez LMAO 😂
yeah FRIGHTENING.
6:39 I didn’t know Nike was sponsoring drug cartels
😂🤣
I wouldn't doubt it😂
Well they sponsor communist and sell out their own player for the money of the communists, so I wouldn’t put it past them
Hey they're just doing it
calling it pure uncut like their advertising how good it is
Makes a huge difference in price. 700mil uncut is around 24000 kilos... after its cut that's around 70000 kilos which = 2 billion
its not an advertisement its just a description
@@mrscrub93 you dont know wtfyou're talking about lol
while in reality its absolutely not uncut this is not the 90's cartels got smarter
It's a way to say the value n potencial
Floating Guantanamo’s. Don’t Smuggle Drugs to the US. Next time we will send the Caribbean Cruise Line
Steve bird yea they bring in illegal substance and kills millions. Fuck them
they smuggle drugs inside everyday America hasn’t done shit against Cartels
Word!
1.3 million worth of cocaine found in jp Morgan's chase boat.
@Shavy Daley 1 billion. It's a bank go big or don't do it at all
John Sajeth yeeeea they don’t even mention that
??
Supply and Demand
@@daovang744 yep u cant stop it.
Drug smugglers giving the coast guard 60 kilos without them knowing they just crossed over 500 kilos through another route as a decoy
Johnny Hernandez Really trying to take them down a peg? You think they only have one crew? Can you not spew hot garbage out your mouth
u rlly just took that from narcos
Haha fr
Yep but more in jail
@oroincorporated 1000 kilos is a ton! welcome to the metric system...
455,000 lbs of cocaine in a year. Thats like 4.1 billion dollars street value. Insane
Papyrus yet the drug cartel are still not affected by it because they can just create more. Isn’t that crazy?
@@bigmike956 cocaine is impervious. Peru, colombia, bolivia several countries dedicated to the drug trade where it is legal too & there is no incentive to stop growing it
It's like everybody is cocaine expert in this comment section
Well are you aware that roughly 0.8% of Americans consume cocain at least once a month? Combined with Canadians, which also receive their supply via the US there are basically 3.5 million monthly consumers. Thats a loooot. Additionally you have to adjust for losses in transportation.
Edit: The Daily Telegraph (UK newspaper) even estimates 2.3% of 16-60 year olds regularely consume cocain (3rd highest rate worldwide).
@@Elliott_Elliott Apparently Canada is the 2nd largest consumer of cocaine in the world or in North America
The coast guard is doing a great job. Thank god they are out there.
All that COKE a yahtt and no stripers? it just seems wrong
@Jeff Bardot Normly these are female good looking women who get paid to take off clothes and excite the Men around them for Money.. Its like haveing a girlfriend for a short period of time who is just really honest honest about takeing your money and rewarding you with pleasure.. Its like an interpersonal relationship but with less proability of being charged with domestic violence to try to get your other wallet away from you:) God Bless the coast Guard and Honest women
Hahaha
@Jeff Bardot your mom
@Jeff Bardot well shit
@dragon08 ** he was being sarcastic because he said stipe not stripper!
Proud to be part of the coast guard.
Thanks for your service brother.
How come they didn’t mention the biggest drug bust in history this year on A Chase / JP Morgan shipping boat???
Ehhh
Desert Rose Right because they believe it’s “Just Us” instead of Justice, not one head will roll at the top of our sick society!
I mean they own the ship but dont manage it.. I dont see how you could spin some kind of conspiracy that the bank or some executive from it conspired to smuggle the drugs. It's like saying the bank that owns the propety in which drugs were found was responsible and not the tenants of it makes no sense
@@dnyboy209 yea but saying that it could belong to a Chase executive makes for a better story 😂
They did
Daniel Beltran did you forget how laws work or are they only applicable to the poor? Yo shit yo crime and give my the fact that it’s billionaires involved in money smuggling child trafficking etc not that crazy to imagine someone got an extra 500k Christmas bonus for a ship to go unchecked
"test it on the spot" how do i sign up to be a tester?
and how do they do that? ever hear for "false positive". gotta justify their job somehow.
Chemical tests
@Tony Alston stfu
What are you an idiot?
5:06 everybody does a line to make sure it’s coke.
Max G that’s what I thought for a second
defo
Yep! Yep! Yep! That's the good stuff right there chief.
No wonder everyone in this video looks super happy...
“I shoot guns and I drive boats”
perfect
I like how this “reporter” is defending drug smugglers
More like drug smuggler activist!
Think I might go walk the beach today .who knows might get lucky
More truer word said in jest stuff gets washed up on sure often, wonder if the cartel has figured out the tides yet
It’s amazing how the “rights” of drug smugglers are the focus of these frat boy journalists.
Yea man . What did he expect?
If we give them mattresses, albeit thin mattresses..... how is that inhumane?!?!??? They’re criminals!
That’s what happens when you live in a sheltered first world country.
0:49 "the United States Coast Guard, an agency that seizes three times as much as all other US Law Enforcement agencies combined!"
The United States Coast Guard is more than a "law enforcement agency," the Coast Guard is a US Military branch!
It's not a military branch unless we're at war. Then it goes under the navy
Okay terry; would you like some juice in your sipi cup now?
Its not it belongs to the DHS
@@dylanhunter496 USCG is under DHS and also a branch of the military...
www.defense.gov/KnowYourMilitary/Our-Forces/
Dylan Hunter just because it’s under DHS doesn’t mean it’s not a military branch....
5:36 - The war on drugs and "a big cycle of success". lol.
you think not stopping the cocaine smugglers would be a better idea?
@@jean-baptistesay6941 imagine legalizing it. Nobody will risk their life to smuggle subpar drugs if you can just get them legally.
there's always gotta be some soyboy reporter worried about the human rights of criminals
Agent Bill Wilson how about the human rights of over dosed users.
Just because somebody made poor life choices or just tries to do everything to provide for his family, doesn't mean they don't have human rights.
Jonii yea you can preach that to your next mugger or car thief
Jonii being poor is no excuse for breaking the law.
@@e.d.cavazos6137 yeah and what you gonna do when you work full time and still can't make ends meet?
since when do criminals deserve world class accomadations????
There's no opportunities in South America, you cant blame a man trying to feed his family.
honestly they dont deserve the best of acomadations, like they want to commit a crime and then be like, lemme get like a $500 toilet, all they are doing is their job stop busting on rhem
Zanghzer HB perspective dumb ass they know it’s a crime but the risk is worth it treating them compassionately and attempting to help is what works cells and poor conditions is why we have cities filled with killers making more money than any banker could dream but unable to move the money freely thru the economy causing mass poverty the whole idea of they did a crime they are bad is stupid and ineffective anyone not willing to attempt a different approach to criminal justice is dumber than me with my dick hard
@Austin Madore well we know who grew up in the burbs wit two parents
Sure you can when your ruining others lives.
They say they got the latest technology but the guy is cleaning a standard 12GA shotgun lol.
It's just good o'l reporters saying more than is needed. They should have said more than adequately supplied to fight crime.
Dude those fishes under the boats must have the best parties.
Lol
Honest Mexican citizens thank you for your effort on the war on drugs. Feel free to violate their human rights because human rights should be for people who do the right things.
Right, and If the US reduced it's gluttonous consumption of drugs.
@@daniel213141 that is right brother. Not enough is being done in many countries to prevent drug consumption. Otherwise, it will just be a never ending vicious circle.
8:48 well, let’s start this 2 weeks I want my free daily doses
All that coke is a huge incentive for corruption
Branden Hickerson true
Thats why once it’s confiscated it is highly regulated.
Once the DEA gets it, it’s their problem/fault if anything happens.
1:34 Captain mouth shows cocaine numbness symptoms😂😂😂😂😂
Bro deadass 😂😂😂😂
@@bamolicious73 haha fr
That drone thing is so cool I want one🤣
I'd love to be the one pulling the firing lever. Must be so fun.
Thank you for the good find. Great work everyone.
🤘🏻🇯🇲💐⚘
The Coast Guard is the most underfunded and under appreciated military branch. They deserve much more respect than they get.
Who tf cares if it’s in humane they got like 2 tons of coke
oroincorporated ya well at least their trying it’s a hard job
@@grayo510 people will buy drugs no mater what. War on drugs is huge failure
master vindu i know that but it’s still a hard job there’s no way to combat the amount of drugs that come in and you can’t fix it but their just doing their jobs
@Black Wolf yes but why they risk their asses for nothing cause drugs get anyway into the country. And war on cost pretty much. They should decriminalite all drugs and all adicts would be putted in rehab not in prisons. That way it actually helps people and saves money
Trump speeches are gonna be short an sweet after all that coke was picked up
You know about 80% who watch this video, are a bit upset.... no cocaine
Oh they'll have as much cocaine as they'll ever need, for every bust, ten times the amount isn't caught. This is why the war on drugs is such a failure.
Thank you to everyone serving in the Coast guard !
Thanks to the dfug smugglers for continuing to supply this country with the finest coke!
@@bro-bh5kj also transporting immigrants sometimes leaving them for dead but yeah go them
You didnt make a difference I bought some of the stuff that
Made it through.
Same bro. War on drugs is a fail. America makes no sense to me sometimes
Who said it didn't go thru
fillabong dude really?
A difference doesn’t mean they stopped it entirely. Criminal.
@@cstrutherskgs Good sheep. The government knows best, right? God forbid someone do coke and be overly chatty for a few hours.
Unbelievable!!Thank you coast guard.
War on drugs or eliminating the competition?
"It's just like one big cycle of success" he said xD what a joke. He should read a book about the balloon effect and the supply side strategy of the war on drugs. The drug addicts this cocaine was going to will still get cocaine from one of the other 21978591253 shipments that didn't get caught.
Dixie Mungus but it’s making it harder and making them spend more money on making coke by getting these boats...like are u fucking stupid?
drugs will always be here are holes money is power
What happens to it once the dea gets it? Asking for a friend.
EL Rubi sold back to the mafia
What screwston said
Then to the hood so they can catch black people with it so they can lock em up and get paid...Big business
What Texas said
It's then sent to all big cities where it makes its way to smaller ones all while the police are busting people with it to lock them up or put them on probation to keep money coming in to their pockets
Coast guard: STOP YOUR BOAT!
Driver: *doesn’t hear anything*
THANK YOU
Imagine the parties they are having at night on that coastguard boat lol
"Legalize medical cocaine" GTA 5
I think they tried to see how many times they could fit the phrase 'pure uncut cocaine' into this 10 min video
Here is an idea!!! If you dont want to get shackled dont run drugs!!
Stfu u idiot
Tupac Shakur he’s not lying it’s true
Amen to that!
@Sydney Austin We are a land of laws. If they make it legal then so be it, but as of right now its a no go. If they made it legal then you would not have drug runners
@Sydney Austin you are right. Laws do not apply to people like the Clintons
They don't even make a dent in the drug trade
great job!!!im praying for you guys!!! keep it up!!!
Could we take a moment to appreciate that the boat has a Nike tick at 6:41
0:17 Yelling at a submarine to stop LUL
1 gets seized but 4 others are gonna make it through lol
The small boat that was intercepted was a decoy for the main sub that was 5 miles away and under water.
Cocaine: **Exists**
The Coast Guard in Miami: And we took that personally.
God Bless these Brave Men and Women
They are America’s First Line of
Defense!!!!
America's first line of defense?? Really? That's 1 big heavy title and a big slap in me and my battles face. USCG are like Boy Scouts compared to the Cavalry. RECON!
Jah Mac I Respect You and Serving Your Country
I’m Thankful to you and Veterans
But I do not Think Less of Any Veterans Serving
Highly doubt they're just going to "destroy" 700 million dollars worth of coke.
Dude when he yelled at the submarine he sounded like Homer chocking bart simpson
Where ever there is a demand there will always be supply 🤷♂️
They do a great job. Thanks every one of them.
@@andreamitchell4758 What's wrong, are you mad because that cocaine you ordered didn't make it?
@@young_king_ no personally i HATE stimulants , i can't even have caffeine anymore
@Johns Does it doesn't. These busts do literally nothing to stop end user sales.
Imagine go to sea fishing at midnight with personal boat and find a tone of coce floating arround some location..
That always happening my old neighbor found 4keys I ain’t seen him since he bought 2 trucks
they return it back to the person who started it all lol
This video was cool until they started talking about the detainees being treated unfairly. They are in custody for transporting millions of dollars of drugs. Does this reporter expect first class accommodations for these criminals?
Thts a slippery slope bro
6:40 nike swoosh
Thats wrong, cocaine cowboy was a term used to described the CIA Iran contra smuggling back in the 80s
God forgive that these criminals are only given 3 star and not 5 star accommodations !
This is so badass much respect
I wish they would quit calling it the war on drugs. You can't call it a war because wars eventually come to a end. Apparently they've been fighting a war for half a century GTFOH . Quit wasting tax dollars on this bs.
Well dont want usa to be like shitt whole mexico
Riley Richmond fr it’s like people have never seen videos of other countries where everyone is poor and on drugs. Iraq is a perfect example
My question is, why don’t they ever show the after process of what they do with the evidence?
They can’t the places they take to incinerate it is kept secret.
dudelivestrong I’m sure it is... 🤔
Because they put it on the streets and pocket the profits.
Check on discovery channel they show you how they doit
@@GuttaBoy907 think about it, hey this place is where we burn all the drugs, so there is going to be a heavy concentration of very valuable illicit material set at a known location. Thats just asking for violence.
I never knew the US Coast Guard was my dope dealers 🔌 😂 😂
Let me just get a bundle. That's all I need for the rest of my life.lol
End the war on drugs it’s already been proven to be a huge failure .
Wonder how much makes it on land?
@@senoow4215 only about 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of it
the war on drugs is a failure. All of this money, time, expertise and military muscle going into a lost cause.
So the members of the coast guard, are awesome sea police!
2:54 that boat they seized shows up for a boat check??🤣
They seemed to really like the uncut part :P
Sometimes it really seem like the drug busters be using that cocaine for them selves.
No, no it doesnt.
Hell no...
I’m surprised the coast guard actually bags that much cocaine. I always figured they just hung out, shot pirates, and helped stranded sailors or people drowning
They can also deploy abroad.
Just imagine being a fish in the sea seeing a massive block thrown from the sky and getting high a few minutes later lmao.
I sworn in by a coast guard Lieutenant when I was going threw the Meps process. I really wanted to joking the CG but unfortunately you need some high scores on the asvab and I didn’t have it so I ended up in the army infantry and yes I’m as dumb as a bag of rocks lol
How hard would it be to put a few jail cells in those ships
Coastie here, it would be awesome if we stop wasting money on the war on drugs🙄 we’ve lost, but refuse to surrender.
Bro nobody gets addicted to coke anymore just send it through
Ya act like the drug war is working 😂😂😂
screaming at a submarine and then beating with the fist on pure steel... very interesting technique.
Fiberglass
Detainees were sheltered inside out of the elements. The guard was the one outside.
I'll like to imagine Nemo snorting 300k pounds of cocaine at once underwater.
Looks fun chasing the fast boats
I just want to thank all of those drug smugglers for giving so many Americans happiness thank you from America
Keep up the great work
Fishing boat carrying more than 1,500 kilos of cocaine intercepted in waters south of the Canaries
The operation, the result of international collaboration through the Maritime Analysis and Analysis Centre for Maritime Narcotrafficking in the Atlantic (MAOC) and coordinated by the Centre for Intelligence on Terrorism and Organised Crime (CITCO), was carried out under very adverse conditions due to the existence of a force 7 storm and strong winds. 1:03 [Agencia Tributaria España]
New Zealand intercepts 3.2 tonnes of cocaine worth $500m floating in Pacific Ocean
Authorities say the haul, which is the largest seizure of illicit drugs made by the country’s law enforcement, was destined for Australia 3:00 [The Guardian]
0:17 "HOTEL TRIVAGO!"
We could all have 13 lines why they gettin rid of it😤
Then they should charge ALL homeless living on the streets for treating themselves inhumanly. WTF!
Wish it was journalistically wrong to say “front line”...
I see as america is a big bussiness the only inportante thing is money
Stfu
C 4 yup human trafficking and drugs run by our good ole government
@@desertrose6100 Since you have this whole world figured out what exactly are you doing besides bitching and complaining to do about it?
K B awe poor lil fella. Ignorance is bliss for you. Look it up.
It’s not the regular coast guard people. They are only going on orders
It goes to the top of government. Not a secret anymore as it’s being exposed.
@@desertrose6100 So instead of insulting me, how about you answer my question? What do you intend to do to help the problem instead of complaining about it?
For every one they get, ten make it across. It will never stop as long as the US junkies keep the demand high.
That and the corrupt presidents.
What does the coast guard do with the coke when they have a party? 🤣
Great to see ragnar 1100 in action
For those who dont know what im talking about it's a boat made by small company in iceland one of best coast guard boats out there. If the boat turns upside and down the boat will turn back. 90% less waves knock then any other coast guard boat that has been made. Its the future of speed coast guard boats
There's no rafnar boat in the video...
That to bad they don’t have fluffy beds, there killing people. You’ll are doing a great job!
Tommye Taylor they’re all tools with zero maritime experience.
pacificswell my father was in the navy for years and didn’t have a fluffy bed. Why should we give a drug runner
A purface bed and better then the service men do. I’m so proud of the coast guard and the navy. You’ll do a great job
Yeah putting the drugs back in the streets for profit