Drugs the American Way: Drugs packaged as explosives?

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of U.S. drug related crimes and oddities for the months of July-August 2022:

U.S. Coast Guard/U.S. Naval Forces Central Command photo, 30AUG2022.

Crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Glen Harris (WPC 1144) interdict a fishing vessel suspected of smuggling illegal narcotics in the Gulf of Oman, 30AUG2022.

Wyoming Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Kristina Kranz, 13JUL2022.

While deployed to Tunisia, the Wyoming Army National Guard’s Civil Support Team were asked to identify an unknown substance that was packaged to look like explosives.  The substance, stamped TNT, turned out to be cocaine.

Wyoming Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Kristina Kranz, 13JUL2022.

U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP)-Air and Marine Operations reports capturing 121-thousand-667 pounds of cocaine and 33-thousand-226 pounds of marijuana in international waters through the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2022!

The U.S. Navy SEALS are yet again involved with illegal drugs:

CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles Police confirm actress was on narcotics when she crashed and burned her vehicle:

CBP personnel captured 870 pounds of cocaine and 42 pounds of fentanyl hidden inside a tractor-trailer coming from Mexico.

FLORIDA: Narcotics Anonymous meeting results in three people getting killed:

On 23AUG2022, a jury convicted illegals from Mexico and Ecuador of drug smuggling, after a U.S. Coast Guard cutter caught them running drugs from South America to Mexico.

USCG photo by Chief Petty Officer Stephen Lehmann, 30AUG2022.

On 30AUG2022, the crew of USCG cutter Vigorous (WMEC 627) offloaded approximately 22 pounds of cocaine and 1,256 pounds of marijuana, on Coast Guard Base Miami Beach. the drugs were actually captured somewhere in the Eastern Pacific.

ILLINOIS: One of the most corrupt cities in the U.S. is now using tax dollars to openly/publicly treat people for addiction:

MISSOURI: Doctor gets a year in prison, plus he and his wife must pay a fine, after almost ten years of injecting more than 1-thousand trusting patients with a foreign-made drug, and then sending the bill to U.S. taxpayers in order to fund their millionaire lifestyle!

NEW MEXICO: An illegal from Mexico, along with about ten others, is accused of smuggling illegal drugs into the U.S., for the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization (VCFO) transnational criminal enterprise.

NEW YORK: The leader of a so-called candy delivery service gets 22 years in prison for helping to kill the co-founder of video hosting service Vine and the game app HQ Trivia, with illegal drugs.

A man gets only 40 years in prison after killing several people while working for the drugs gang La Organización de Narcotraficantes Unidos (La ONU): “Oscar Valdez-Garcia murdered three people on behalf of a brutal drug cartel.  His killings were depraved and despicable.  In one instance, Valdez-Garcia and another gunman shot their victim, a double-amputee who was sitting in his wheelchair, 24 times in front of the victim’s daughter.”-Damian Williams, federal attorney 

OKLAHOMA: Couple charged with murder after their six years old son dies from fentanyl.

The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics claims one of the largest meth seizures in the state’s history:

OREGON: Not only is the city of Portland considered one of the ‘green-ist’, it is now the deadliest drug market in the United States, according to this National Geographic program:

PENNSYLVANIA: CBP personnel captured more than 41 pounds of cocaine that was being smuggled on a plane from Dominican Republic.

PUERTO RICO: 

USCG District 7 PADET San Juan photo by Ricardo Castrodad, 05JUL2022.

On 05JUL2022, the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos offloaded 250 kilograms in seized cocaine on Coast Guard Base San Juan.  The drug was captured on 30JUN2022.

USCG District 7 PADET San Juan photo, 03AUG2022.

On 03AUG2022, the USCG captured a small blue boat that was carrying 1-thousand-6-hundred-53 pounds of cocaine.  Four Dominicans now face trail in U.S. federal court.

USCG District 7 PADET San Juan photo by Ricardo Castrodad, 16AUG2022.

During the night of 16AUG2022, the USCG captured this boat, near Isabela, with 3-hundred-30 pounds (150kgs) of cocaine aboard.  Eight suspected smugglers were turned over to the multi-agency Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCFS).

TEXAS: A Dallas lawyer gets five years in federal prison for conspiring to launder drug money. Court documents show that the lawyer thought he was working for a drug smuggler, but in reality it was a sting operation by the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency).  The sting operation was launched as a result of somebody that knew the lawyer was crooked, saying “He’s a thug, he’s just got a law degree.”

Drug smugglers were caught after they tried to drive their marijuana filled SUV through the Rio Grande.

Drug smugglers were caught with cocaine while trying to cross the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge.

Yet another CBP drug bust:

During the last weekend of August, CBP personnel caught numerous people trying to smuggle drugs through the El Paso checkpoint.

WASHINGTON: King County law enforcers report more than 3-hundred overdose deaths involving fentanyl, so far this year:

Drugs the American Way: ILLEGAL MIGRANTS = ILLEGAL DRUGS