Billion Dollar Cocaine Bust - High Stakes Sting on the High Seas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Cartel shenanigans moving product across oceans to one of its hottest markets reveals an evolution in the global movement of bulk cocaine - as well as high seas drama from cops trying to stop it. Let me tell you about
The Mob Reporter here with news from the frontlines of the cat and mouse drug war, featuring sneaky cops on two continents versus clumsy narcos, lousy sailors and sellers with an endless supply.
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It was sloppy mistakes that tipped police in Australia to the latest wild tale of logistics gone awry; sloppiness and, dare I say, incompetence. Police in Australia say their case began in May with an intelligence tip that a bulk cargo carrier was heading to the Western Australian coast with a large load of cocaine. As police were monitoring marine traffic looking for suspect ships, there was an emergency rescue call from a small boat in distress; with three men onboard it floundered 13 miles off Australia’s west coast. When police learned the men had bought the boat with cash just hours before setting out to sea - with only themselves as the makeshift, inexperienced crew, it was a substantial red flag. Police suspected they were trying to connect with the incoming cargo ship. Officers looked for likely ships in the area at the time the cabin cruiser set sail. One stood out: The St. Pinot. It left South America a month before. The day after the rescue of the cabin cruiser, Australian Border Force officers intercepted the St. Pinot at sea. A Royal Australian Navy dive team retrieved 29 packages wrapped in blue plastic that were submerged in a water-filled ballast tank.
These alleged narcos were apparently not frightened off by startling revelations of a large international caper that played out in the same waters. Nearly a billion dollars’ worth of coke was seized by U.S. authorities off the coast of South America in November. The DEA realized buyers in Australia would have no idea the load had been nabbed. Police made replicas of the illicit load, and pushed it overboard off the coast of Perth. Police then secretly watched to see who came to fetch it. Two boats arrived and started loading the parcels. Nine men were arrested in a series of raids on hotels and a marina around Perth on New Year’s Eve. The operation was kept secret until March.
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Nothing in the Australian media about this
That's why TMR rocks
@@walterwiseman7112 nope it wasn't
Man it’s been a while, glad the mob reporter is back to tell me more about it
It has been too long, I've been busy. Thank you for your patience.
@@TheMobReporter hopefully your getting some of this pouring rain were getting to knock down those wild fires up there ?
@@TheMobReporter been busy? Side effects or women?
We need him more often like at these once a week 😂
@@TransitionedToASharkthat can be the side effect of pounding cheeks
"Drugs are ruining your life, so if we catch you with drugs, we put you in jail and ruin your life"
It's a money game. The military industrial complex makes money protecting the drug farms and maintaining power in other countries, the CIA makes money trafficking the big shipments to places where they want to weaken the populace, and the local police and governments make tons of money arresting and abusing the low-level users and dealers while also making lucrative deals and protecting the dealers they like.
At every step of the way, evil people get tax-free, untraced billions to spend on their evil, illegal agendas which in turn destroy the world.
Basically
in regard to crime and money going into the wrong hands ,Its sale is basically creating a multi headed dragon that society doesnt really need...
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Same logic my parents used
I never knew the words, 'let me tell you about it', would have me excited, or should I say eager (maybe both) to watch a video. Thank you Mob Reporter.
This makes me happy, TF.
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C 0:43 0:43 0:43 0:43 0:44 the same, I have been working in to see 😄🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈😅😅😅😅--😊
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*narcos watching this taking furious notes on what not to do 😂
Bringing a whole new meaning to pump and dump. Pump production, dump in the ocean 🤦♂️
I have a completely different meaning of pump and dump. eg: " hey Terry make sure you give her the ol' pump and dump tonight"
@@jasonellenberg3261him*
@@Iswhatitisssss smh.. 🤣😔
5:03 LMAO surely no cop took that one brick that woulda made it even...
No way! There was definitely only 26 bricks. But maybe one way lost at sea
love being this early, think I was on the last one too. Great vid TMR - Aus.
They named the boat "Cool Runnings" 😂😂😂 They must really love that movie about the Jamaican bobsled team LOL!
I was thinking the same thing. "No one remembers that movie anymore!" Kind of a cheesy name for a boat.
The Mob Reporter said "yeet". My life is complete.
I'm a poet and didn't know it.
I like how they cut down the big circus 🎪 tent to use the fabric to wrap up the bails of coke lol.
It's been reported lately of Orca whales attacking small boats off the west coast of North America...just wondering here if "coke floats " have anything to do with these singular occurances???
#CocaineKillerWhales!!
Well Orcas are & Should be the Bouncers ( Human Protecters at every Beach )
They love the Great White Sharks Liver
It would Keep Human Surfers Swimmers Safe
But I Don’t Know about a Coked Up Bouncer 🤣
You could be onto something
Sad if the Orcas have been affected
My mind is blown! It's absolutely possible which is kinda scary!
Best thought provoking comment that I've heard all year!👍👍
Orcas attacking boats , there just Jonesing looking for more coke
hahahaha suckers ! chasing plasterboard in the ocean is a classic !
Let me tell you about. Sweetest words.
Glad to hear, G8
........ and just how much still gets through 🙄
..and how many people never get touched apart of these sailors, runners etc. The investors behind the load. Respected public figures, politicians, lawyers etc.
Shiat what about the banks? You know why you see a bank on every corner? There's a lot of drug money that gets pumped into the economic circulatory system, and the money needs to be cleaned before it can enter the blood. All the illicit money subsidizes banks, and we have too many because of it. I bet if all the illegal drug money stopped flowing right this instant, there would be massive banking sector collapse.
@@igordrakulovic6857 This isn't a 3rd world country, its Australia, politicians have no part
@@Gayaa4uDrperhaps not directly.
The problem with cocaine these days isn’t the coke itself, it’s that it’s spiked with fentanyl. Me no like that fent. I remember the good times in the 80’s when we would get 8 balls right from the brick courtesy of Pablo Escobar and Friends. Yejo mama.
As 69 once said “HANG HANG HANG HANG”
Thank you Mob Reporter! Always look forward to your videos.
Thanks, PS.
Where you been man.
I have had to do things, sorry, including fighting with YT about platform issues that were strangling my channel. We *may* have found some solutions.
less than 1% of drugs being smuggled are intercepted. when will states stop enabling cartels and violent drug groups and just allow legal purchase already.
It's some kind of game for rich or sick people as we see the only casualties of the War on Drugs are those like you, me and our friends...
@LEAP
The war on drugs was started when? Oh yeah, June 1971. What a lot of good that has done.
@@DogmaticAtheist It's a sham, especially when we're given evidence of other American agencies of government actually dealing in it! We are being played!
It's a war on consciousness and personal freedom is what it is. Who has a right to tell me what I can and can't put in my own body? If I'm not harming you or your's then why does it matter?
@@DogmaticAtheist I think you are missing the point, such substances are responsible for the devolution of our societies, they have enriched criminals exponentially, for everyone who enjoys drugs there's 2 more who die from them, in the 1950s our gaol population from drug crimes was below 5% today it's at 85%, I don't need to mention that drug crimes can be trafficking, stealing for, possession, dealing, conspiracy, violence for debts etc etc. SO if anyone is content with all this and worse they need drugs themselves. @UKLEAP
So Australians can play find the coke for random coke drop offs even if they are not the ones who bought them? 😅 Sounds like free products up for the taking. 🤣😂
Imagine coming across a huge gyre of coke.
What would you do, though?
@@TheMobReporterDie happy
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Welcome backn
Thanks. Lots more to come, BR.
@@TheMobReporter those are good news....
I knew you’d finally hear of these in west Australia You could do a whole hr long special on all the busts out west they weren’t the 1st to call rescue and get busted 😂
Love your work mate
Love the early access from patron 🤪
He's back! Tell me about it!!!!
Another great show!!
i love this vdeos series
What does US authorities have to do with this find?
As an Australian i can say that the cocaine trade is huge. I used to know a guy who knew this guy who had an uncle , whose brother had a friend
.. this guy used to sell drugs and he said that his biggest money maker was booger sugar. I no longer live in Australia and no longer associate with this particular person.
so you're the dealer. and you've moved on to bigger and better things. translated by google.
Honey drop everything you are doing Why Mob Reporter is here
Sorry to interrupt....
@@TheMobReporter TMR i was only joking you never interrupt i'm always waiting for your vids
Thanks @themobreporter for yet another great video 👍🏻
Can't wait for the next one 😀
Do they honestly think that amount of coke would last years? Seriously? Not much of a social life I guess. No matter how much coke is at the party, it is going to run out before sunrise.
Six month's supply, they said -- half a year. But as you say, supply creates its own consumption rate.
Lord knows they always get the numbers wrong. Try a couple weeks 😂
If not a single weekend.
Thank you for your reporting and imagery , I I am a Sand Groper - AKA Western Australian Perth Resident - Love seeing more content on the Drug Busts off our coast line
Just heard about a 100 + pound bust of coke in a traffic stop in Arkansas usa
But only 2 pounds ever showed up at court. Can't imagine where the other 98 pounds disappeared to.
@@coloradomountainman8659 wow
Always look forward to seeing one of your videos. Great as always
Got damn someone in trouble
Western Australia used to be such a clean living place (except for the oceans of beer they drank).
Then they discovered ice bc of the well paid mine workers coming over from the eastern states.
Now they have graduated to the champagne of narcotics due to their disposable income and eventual realisation of how bad “shard” really is for you.
Two comments for the algorithm and to welcome you back.
Been too long!
Thanks, LW.
Thats just the point of entry. Its not all designated just for the west. Its less conspicuous than Botany or Port Melbourne!
@@steveskrobot9496 - agree that a fair percentage of it will travel east. However a fair bit more than some might think will stay in WA.
There are still a heck of a lot of single men with disposable income burning a hole in their pockets over there.
Either way, the cartels have sure woken up to our relatively high prices when compared to the rest of the world (except NZ who have similarly crazy high prices) so the influx of tonnage into Australia will continue until pricing drops & the high relative profitability goes away.
If prices ever do drop!!!
Wheres the trillion dollar bust lol
Only a matter of time, I think...
@@TheMobReporter their was something on aljarreza channel about italian pakistani afghan mafia about the trillion laundered
With rampant inflation ...... in a couple of years.😆
been a while good to see you back sir
Good to see your back brother and thank you for another Great video 🙏
Yeeting it into the sea hahaha! So simple and so effective!
Lovely work. Always a great story!
Thanks, SC. Glad you like it.
wu tang..
My guy said yeet , things id never thought if hear haha , great video as always, price of the brick going up!!!
Man imagine stumbling on mutiple kilos of cocaine floating ashore. That could make a man very rich.
It's a great dream of mine 😂
legalize it, let it sort out the addicts, get rid of cartel rule. come on.
Wow, I live in Australia, had no idea! Time to buy me a boat and a very powerful pair of binoculars!
Love your work mate 🇦🇺
Is it bad that I wish there were more drug dealers so there would be more arrests and therefore more Mob Reporter videos?
I already have too many to tackle, no worries about that. I need more time not more busts!
Only 10 percent of what’s sent is intercepted.
So yes there are more drug dealers out there just not enough MOB REPORTERS
The feds just need to work harder. There’s plenty of drug dealers.
@TheMobReporter Hi Sir I would be fascinated to see your views on the current state of Montreal after the attempts on Leonardo R and the passing away of FDB.
@@Pyrrhic537 You do see what kind of videos he produces right? lol. Lets not get him involved in politics. He opinions have nothing to do with this channel and would only cause issues for him regardless of what he thinks.
For channels on this gendre ...this channel is hands down the creme de le creme ... Most interesting and entertaining to watch 👌
Dea can’t mind their own drug business
No need for thanks watching until the end is a Pleasure.Been Icy storm fronts coming in from your part of the globe to my slice of paradise even with Tse locked up is no end to that happening more often. Many Thanks as always to 'The Mob Reporter'.
I wonder how many narco sub shipments have made their way across the seas and through the continents since your last video?
Great to see you back MR.
Too risky. You can always depend on good old fashioned corruption and use a regular cargo ship.
Keep telling us about it
Doing what I can, DF. Thanks
Thank M.R.! Great content as always…me and my canoe r headed to the waters off Australia👀
You'll sink yourself if you're not careful - get video of it for me!
Another great production, thank you!
Someone didn't get their scheduled bribe.
Lots didnt get their guaranteed coke.😊
Always a great presentation. Thanks.
Thanks for watching, SC.
Bing bing
Ping pong
@@Jok3rDk Very bing
It appears that international law enforcement, has become as crafty and tricky as the sophisticated international narcos !!! Great job on this video, Thanks Mob Reporter.
LOL he only tells you about the ones they catch. .The fact syndicates collaborated to withhold merchandise for a month to stop the price plummeting on the streets tells a different story ,one that clearly shows authorities are not winning not even close.
@@stansmith1114 amen to that bro. !!!
Great to see you back on the tube hope you OK, hi frae scotland
At a lost for words. Who knew all this is going on.
It’s always been going on
@@luke125 at least since the prohibition of alcohol in 1920. That is where organized crime and gangster culture in america started. What a proud Christian temperance tradition our war on drugs is espousing.
Lots of people
Imagine going fishing and stubbing upon this 😮
What would you do??
@@TheMobReporterhave a party!
If only…
@@TheMobReporter I think even the most moral people out there would consider becoming a drug dealer at that point, for even just a moment haha
@@TheMobReporter find out if there is a reward for turning it in. Failing that, track down the proper recipients for this and claim a finders fee. Yea, a bit ballsy but with the proper spiel, possible.
Great reporting 👏
I need to get a boat and move to Australia 😂
Just make sure you don't see a drone overhead
Those prices are high as giraffe nuts over there.
@@154g Yeah, $250 a gram where I am. Goes up to $350 in some parts of the country too. Ridiculous.
Well, and thank you Mob Reporter. Just drop off into the ocean some where, and post coordinates and off they go.
Stunning...
Like always great job keep it coming
Wow!
Thanks Mob Reporter! Always good content !
I want some coke now
Are we sure it’s coke ??
You should bring me to where your keeping it and I’ll make sure. 😂
Glad you’re still alive
Same same!
King king
Great reporting. Crazy how cartels have so much money then can dump millions of $$ of stuff in the ocean and hope it sells and not get stolen or sink.
Thats says they don’t t care, they have plenty more.
"Let me tell you about it" you're living legend Mob reporter
this is an intriguing tactic, it leaves me with a lot of questions. how does the cartel know the correct customer is picking up the drop? how is money transferred? what if it sinks or drifts out? very fascinating stuff
The ocean is really big, very unlikely somebody will run across it without the exact coordinates. Even if a boat drove 500 feet by it, they wouldn't see it. It doesn't float away probably because its anchored. Alot of international drug money transfers are done with crypto. This is true when sending money out of the usa, and not so much when money is sent into the usa.
Might be a radio transponder attached on a secret frequency?
MR do you think the narcos have some kind of waterproof GPS tracker on the cocaine islands? Surely they must move around a bit when they're dumped at sea.
Some people are so self indulgent. Used it a few times year's ago and although I could have used it every day if I wanted I didn't because I wasn't gambling with my health.
Thankyou for all the great content, again & again.. Cheers from Australia.. 👍
They get a kilo for not more than 2k. when load is big.. They pay the transport 2 to 3k per kilo to these transporters ..sailors etc. It goes at 30k first hand sale when it reach Europe and it goes up a lot if it's down under or notthern euro, up a lot. And thats a whole sale and just a first hand. They ? They are people who run your communities, well respected , laud or quiet , best lawyers, city majors , well to do business owners .. the so called pillars pf communities . That is the cancer.And thats how crooked are the times we live in.
Always the best and informative videos. Thanks.😊
A massive cache of weapons has been discovered in an “abandoned” arsenal linked to the Kinahan
Just like alcohol law enforcement will never stop cocaine. You don’t stop drugs by arresting people. You stop drugs by making them legal and managing them, and educating the young people.
The only true crime I watch anymore! Thank you mob reporter!
Thanks Mob Reporter for telling us all about it...!
Missed you mob……let’s get to weekly posts!!!
Legalize it
Thank fuck this video showed up, i was about to call the Tang police to do a wellness check on Mob Reporter!
I'm glad to see another video on a Saturday at that. I never find anything like that in the ocean 😂
Top content as always.Thank you!
Hey, there has been quite a lot of mafia action in Montreal recently. Are you going to make a video of it?
Another fascinating story - thanks TMR!
Glad you like it, DG.
@@TheMobReportery'all should kiss
"large fields of floating bales - in oceans and seas - near major market countries..." sounds like we're still talking about the floating bales of pot - off California shores - back in the 70's...
What's old - is new. Balls of steel - - but they seem to have sunk the plan.
The supply off coke in sydney is high. Never seen the market flooded with coke like this before.
I don't understand how does the cargo not get carried far away from its initial location.
They attach electronic finder beacons. Probably using iPhone airtags these days.
Thank you Mob Reporter 👍🙂🇨🇦
Amazing!!
Good thing your back!