Police Find Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine

[Brutuskend]

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian police found a homemade submarine capable of carrying $200 million worth of cocaine on a Pacific Ocean smuggling mission, police said Friday.
Police, who acted on a tip, made no arrests after finding the submarine hidden in the port of Tumaco, near the border with Ecuador, the Administrative Security Department detective force said.

It was the second publicized case of Colombian drug smugglers trying to use submarines. In 2000, another underwater vessel was found far from the coast in the Andean mountain capital, Bogota.

"They started building the submarine about six months ago, using small pieces so as not to make people suspicious. They wanted to have it ready for Easter because they thought the police would drop their guard," said Eduardo Fernandez, head of the DAS in the southern province of Valle del Cauca. [/L]

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[artikk]

1 point for the police. :thumbsup:

 

[Red Dawn]

A Colombian Submarine? Are they sure it just wasn't a bloated turd?

 

[Bootprint]

What's next Laser Guided or GPS guided Coke Bombs.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

they should have let it go and have a U.S. Submarine use it for target practice.

 

[StageLeft]

Subs are cool!

 

[Triumph]

Necessity is the mother of invention. That's pretty resourceful of them.

 

[imported_Phil]

That's awesome

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: Triumph
Necessity is the mother of invention. That's pretty resourceful of them.

Yeah they are also the ones that hired scientist to created the better coke plan last year.

 

[Ulfwald]

1 Us navy sub versus Homemade coke sub. Hmmmmmmm who would win that confrontation?

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
What's next Laser Guided or GPS guided Coke Bombs.

GPS tracking for "deliveries" has been used for some time now...

 

[Mr N8]

They should have let it all progress, so they could confiscate all the coke when it was time for them to move it. Now there cocaine is still in the hands of the dealers, and will most likely make it to it's destination.

 

[element]

Originally posted by: Ulfwald
1 Us navy sub versus Homemade coke sub. Hmmmmmmm who would win that confrontation?

The fishies, they'd get high.

 

[KLin]

Didn't they also hire scientists to create a genetically engineered coca plant to withstand herbicides a lot better?

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: MogulMonster
They should have let it all progress, so they could confiscate all the coke when it was time for them to move it. Now there cocaine is still in the hands of the dealers, and will most likely make it to it's destination.

very good point.

 

[EyeMWing]

The Navy would've had SO MUCH FUN with that.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

damnit, now i have to go check FS/FT for spare sub parts and scrap metal

 

[Baked]

Looks like somebody forgot to paid off the police.