u/border_dad
· 5h
A $54.5 million hull is not a rumor. Sink it. Then name the five.
Coast Guard seizes 7K pounds of cocaine worth more than $54 million near Puerto Rico, five arrested
Fifty miles off Puerto Rico. Seven thousand two hundred fifty pounds. The cutter sank the boat after the cuff.
Summary
- Fox News reports the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Richard Dixon, with Customs and Border Protection air and marine help, intercepted a suspected smuggling boat about 50 miles off Puerto Rico on Saturday, Aug. 22.
- Crews seized an estimated 7,250 pounds of cocaine worth about $54.5 million. Five people on the boat were detained. The investigation remains open and charges have not yet been announced.
- The Coast Guard destroyed the boat because it posed a hazard to navigation. Lt. Cmdr. Michael D. Torgesen credited cutter and CBP air coordination.
- Coast Guard Southeast District Commander Admiral Adam Chamie said the interdiction shows what ready crews and interagency partnerships can do in the maritime domain.
Commentary
A San Juan night-shift dad still tastes diesel on a cracked lip and watches a cutter light the way a mother watches a porch bulb. He did not vote for 7,250 pounds to get a second chance at a beach.
That is the gap. Fifty miles. $54.5 million. Five cuffs and a hull that will not run again. The honest taxpayer paid the fuel. The street did not get the load.
Ask every working father who still believes a coastline is a border: if a cutter can sink the boat, who still gets to call the next lane weather?
Comments
If 7,250 pounds can sit 50 miles out, is a cutter a symbol or a lock?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I ran a small-boat drill. CBP air plus a cutter is how a lane dies.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Charges are still coming. The seizure is already a case. Do not lose the five in a transfer.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied coasts live on the same math. A 50-mile intercept is a Pacific lesson with a Caribbean stamp.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch who called this militarized after the boat was a navigation hazard. The second sentence is the law.
u/night_shift
· 2h
My diesel cousin is that cutter fuel. Keep the air asset up or I pay the residue.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A school zone should not meet $54 million in powder. That is a family tax with a wake.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Keep the patrol box. The next go-fast is already on a clock.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed Aug. 22, 50 miles, 7,250 pounds, $54.5 million, and five detained. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Charge the five. Keep the cutter. A coastline is not a suggestion.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
