• Lembot_0004@discuss.online
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    22 days ago

    So they hid cocaine parcels with DIESEL inscriptions in banana shipment? Moral: don’t do drugs, at least when you package drugs for transportation.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      Diesel fuel is sometimes used as a solvent during the extraction and processing of cocaine from coca leaves. Traces can remain in the final product. Maybe that’s why they labelled them like that. Just a wild guess tho

  • flandish@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    this is not the first time this has been tried. know of a federal case some 15 years ago or so.

  • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    It’s amazing that people still think this has ANY effect on global drug trafficking. It does not.

    The war on drugs was lost decades ago. It wasn’t even close.

    Now, these drug raids are just excuses to steal tax dollars so asshole cops can pretend they’re doing somehting to help society. They are not. Drug flows have never slowed down. Not even a bit.

    Just more copaganda.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 days ago

      600 lbs is like nothing to the cartels, they only put as much in a shipment as they’re willing to lose, they caught this one while another 9 identical shipments reached their targets. Goid luck lmao.