COCAINE

Drivers getting caught in FMCSA’s drug clearinghouse net

The increasing number of full queries made into the federal Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse is evidence that the database is taking drug abusers off the road as intended, according to a trucking regulatory expert.

According to the latest monthly statistics released Monday by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, full queries into the clearinghouse increased 33% to 13,785 between October and November, which followed a 61% increase between September and October. Full queries are conducted...

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Legal noose tightens around MSC Gayane drug gang (with free court docs)

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A third seafarer has pled guilty in the spectacular plot to use a large container ship and many of its crew to transport massive volumes of cocaine from South America to Europe.

Authorities swarmed the vessel, the MSC Gayane, during a June 2019 call in Philadelphia. In one of the largest drug busts in U.S. history, they found almost 20 tons of cocaine worth over $1 billion.

To put that in perspective, the cocaine haul weighed as much as three adult male African elephants.

Aleksandar Kavaja, an...

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Cocaine Found in Hull of Product Tanker

Cocaine found in a steel tube, attached to the underwater hull of a product tanker, reports Maritime Bulletin.

Steel tube attached to hull

Police detected so-called “parasite”, a steel tube attached to the underwater hull of the product tanker MTM POTOMAC. The tanker was docked at Santo Tomas De Castilla, Guatemala, where she arrived on Aug 4 from Colombia. 

What was in the tube?

According to reports, the tube was filled with around 56 packages containing cocaine.

GPS transmitter

There was a GPS...

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Coast Guard seizes 6,800 lbs. of cocaine

In June, the Coast Guard cutter Vigilant crew confiscated 122 bales of cocaine in back-to-back interdictions of go-fast vessels just off the coast of Limon, Costa Rica.

The forward-deployed Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew aboard the Vigilant successfully disabled the first go-fast vessel and observed the crew throwing packages overboard.

Once on scene, the boarding team discovered four people aboard and recovered 77 bales or approximately 4,200 lbs. of cocaine from the water....

https://www.workboat.com/news/government/coast-guard-seizes-upwards-of-6800-lbs-of-cocaine/

No worries over Portier Extension concrete; Four jailed over Larvotto cocaine offences; UK halts daily death reports… MORE

No worries over Portier Extension concrete; Four jailed over Larvotto cocaine offences; UK halts daily death reports… MORE

Good  Morning Monaco  –  Monday July 20, 2020

Falsified documents were at the centre of a Monaco court case brought against a specialist construction company.

Four men have appeared before the Monaco Criminal Court in connection with the distribution and use of cocaine. The...

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Officials Seize Narcotics from Laden Containership

  • Mexican law enforcement officers after tip-off searched container ship Svendborg Maersk on arrival at Manzanillo Mexico.
  • Two packages with 102.5 kilos of cocaine were found in the container.
  • Maersk confirmed that authorities at Manzanillo Terminal are conducting an investigation.

Narcotics were found on board containership Svendborg Maersk by Mexican law enforcement officers, reports Maritime Bulletin.

Cocaine onboard containership

Mexican law enforcement officers after tip-off searched...

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Cocaine, two men found in container on Maersk vessel

A.P. Møller – Mærsk said it is cooperating with Mexican authorities after two men and 102.5 kilos of cocaine were found in a container on board the Svendborg Maersk at the Port of Manzanillo on Thursday. 

“We can confirm that authorities at Manzanillo Terminal are conducting an investigation after allegedly two stevedores were found hidden alongside narcotics in one container,” said Christian Kjærgaard-Winther, Maersk’s senior press officer. “We are collaborating with the Mexican authorities in...

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Cracking the case of the containerized cocaine

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The drug bust aboard the container-ship MSC Gayane on June 17, 2019, was spectacular in every sense: the largest drug seizure in U.S. history, over a billion dollars’ worth of cocaine, a ship operated by one of the world’s largest carriers and owned by one of America’s largest banks, a conspiracy among the crew, nighttime liaisons off the South American coast, a globe-spanning trafficking network … it sounded like a maritime version of “Scarface.”

A year later, the saga continues to unfold.

The...

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Marijuana, cocaine top drug clearinghouse violations

Marijuana is by far the drug of choice among drivers testing positive for controlled substances, according to data compiled by the federal Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse.

In the first detailed summary report of the clearinghouse, released on June 10 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), data shows that the 10,388 driver drug tests that tested positive for marijuana accounted for almost half of the 21,156 total positive tests submitted to the clearinghouse as of June 1. The...

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