Authorities intercept $200 million in cocaine heading to US on mini-submarine

Authorities intercept $200 million in cocaine heading to US on mini-submarine

Authorities intercept $200 million in cocaine heading to US on mini-submarine, Texas authorities accept intercepted a semi-submersible barge attempting to accompany $200 actor in cocaine into the United States.

US Customs and Border Protection agents aboard a surveillance aircract detected the barge forth the Eastern Pacific ocean. Agents arrested four humans who operated the self-propelled vessel. The mini-sub was accustomed 12,800 pounds (5.5 tons) of cocaine and began to bore afterwards the arrest on March 2.

“This blazon of cooperation and teamwork produces these kinds of after-effects area suspects are arrested and narcotics prevented from extensive U.S. shores,” John Wassong, administrator at the National Air Security Operations Center, said in a account on Thursday. “Our crews will abide to yield every befalling to agitate this blazon of transnational bent activity.”

In 2015, US Customs and Border Protection agents completed 198 seizures, disruptions and boycott events, confiscating 213,000 pounds of cocaine during the budgetary year.

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