$100M Cocaine bust at Port of Norfolk, VA linked to Trinidad

[eliteauto]

wa is d name ah da building mark bassant was in front of? Park Plaza? wa it have in dey.

SSA

[brams112]

That haul looks like it was already cut,ent cocaine is some kindah powdah?

[eliteauto]

if you all watched the news tonight you'd have seen where it was said this shipment is the 5th one and the DEA has been watching them for over a year, the company that packed the container sent out 2 shipments each in 2012 and 2013 all of which were of the same juice, these are the only exports the company has done in the last 2 years, so it stands to reason it's a cocaine exporting front, it also appears the DEA knows who they are after and have already drafted extradition requests so it's just a matter of time. They also suggested they may try to flip the local ppl to give evidence against the foreign participants, in that case local ppl involved, might wanna increase their life insurance and not leave home

[brams112]

if you all watched the news tonight you'd have seen where it was said this shipment is the 5th one and the DEA has been watching them for over a year, the company that packed the container sent out 2 shipments each in 2012 and 2013 all of which were of the same juice, these are the only exports the company has done in the last 2 years, so it stands to reason it's a cocaine exporting front, it also appears the DEA knows who they are after and have already drafted extradition requests so it's just a matter of time. They also suggested they may try to flip the local ppl to give evidence against the foreign participants, in that case local ppl involved, might wanna increase their life insurance and not leave home

DEA,not playing games,these guy take their job duties with pride,might even have video evidence for the kill.

[de_dougla_smurf]

[pioneer]

But ent politicians (even tuners) does deny trinidad is a transhipment point for the cartels?

[Redman]

Wtf is a LYNE minister?

[TriniAutoMart]

lol @ bloodshed.....this kind of load was not done by some lil sealots gangster..the people that did this have deep pockets and can pay that debt (2 mansion sell and debt paid) and this was not a first time thing. As the article said its a business and bloodshed is bad for business...

What about the void that was created by such a bust?
Someone is now short on supply and very unhappy.
Heads will roll once again.

[eliteauto]

lol @ bloodshed.....this kind of load was not done by some lil sealots gangster..the people that did this have deep pockets and can pay that debt (2 mansion sell and debt paid) and this was not a first time thing. As the article said its a business and bloodshed is bad for business...

What about the void that was created by such a bust?
Someone is now short on supply and very unhappy.
Heads will roll once again.

i was trying to figure out what fantasy world he living in with ".the people that did this have deep pockets and can pay that debt (2 mansion sell and debt paid) "

Drugs are usually bought on consignment , you feel dem fellas buy that @ wholesale price and store to move themselves? Wholesale on this was what about $12M US so what 2 mansions here are US$6M apiece? Plus is not just the cash issue but the exposure, right now bumsies musbe clapping

[greggle71]

I think it's safe to assume that part of that manpower that arrived is to do surveillance of the already identified parties. The identified parties probably already know it's a matter of time as well. Trying to skip out the country is futile at this point. The difference is that whatever influence the interested parties have of local law enforcement is nullified with the DEA. Conversations may be had with local law enforcement but I'm sure it's more logistics than intelligence or actual case facts.

If they are picked up how long can they be held without charge before the extradition is executed?

[pioneer]

Oh btw

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=339382&hilit=+narco+caribbean

I am sick and fedup of these rienzi-complex-idiots forever blaming the PNM and the Syrians for drug trafficking in Trinidad and by extent the wider caribbean. Because thaz what they heard in the rumshop an thaz what kamala said.

I challenge anyone with something resembling a brain, common sense and possess the ability to be objective and formulate their OWN opinion/thoughts on the issue to purchase and download these e-books, it's only 6USD. You get the download within a couple minutes.

If you don't possess these qualities please read no further, click close and quickly exit this thread n go about with what you were doing.

[pause]

Make a contribution to the author and enlighten yourself to cold hard facts and who/what started it all. Then start bumping allyuh gum and stamp allyuh labels as allyuh see fit.

Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking in the Caribbean vol. 1

Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking in the Caribbean vol. 2

Again i urge you to take some time and READ, educate yourself on the topic then launch allyuh attacks. Least it would be an informed and educated attack (or one can assume so)

Also please don't go all bezman on us by reading the preface and assume you read the book.

Thanks.

I almost forgot my good pal bezman yes, anyone heard from him of recent?

That thread exposed the dummies.

[joker]

Submarines....

[eliteauto]

ppl really should have read the links Pioneer listed in that thread, the $6 wouldn't have killed you

[*$kїđž!™]

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/TWO ... 96981.html

TWO-YEAR HUNT FOR DRUG DEALERS
DEA meets officials on $644 million cocaine in juice tins

By Mark Bassant CCN Senior Multimedia Investigative Journalist
Story Created: Jan 21, 2014 at 10:29 PM ECT
Story Updated: Jan 21, 2014 at 10:29 PM ECT
COCAINE shipments sent by drug smugglers using the guise of the defunct company Carib­bean Sea Works Ltd over the last year and a half from Trinidad were closely monitored by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents.
“The DEA through controlled shipments were able to track a consignee in the United States and this sent up red flags, and they are aware who is involved in the US. They have since back-tracked here to obtain documents and go through cold data records,” revealed a senior intelligence source who is actively involved in helping the DEA gather information in a $644 million drug bust in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
The shipment in question originated in Trinidad.
Also being targeted are the local cohorts in the lucrative trade.
The Express and TV6 News obtained exclusive data concerning four other shipments that were sent over the last year and a half by Caribbean Sea Works Ltd. See table at top right. “All were 20-foot containers with canned juice, all with the same destination—Norfolk, Virginia, and all shipped by Caribbean Sea Works Ltd,” pointed out a senior port official.
The shipments left Trinidad on May 26, 2012; October 25, 2012; March 23, 2013; and July 26, 2013; before the last shipment left on November 17, which was uncovered by US Customs and Border security officials in Norfolk,Virginia, on December 20 last year.
The senior intelligence source said, “It was not the first hit and, based on the DEA’s intelligence, these containers would have also contained cocaine, but it was all in an effort to draw out the US-based link.”
Port officials told TV6 News the company Caribbean Sea Works only did business sending canned juice to Canada and United States.
Yesterday TV6 and the Express reported exclusively this company had been defunct and was never involved in the business of shipping but, rather, construction, as confirmed by relatives of John O’Sullivan, the former director who died about three years ago.
With reference to using Caribbean Sea Works Ltd—which has been a defunct company for more than three years, with both telephone numbers out of service—the source said, “This is their way of shadowing—using a company that might not be in existence anymore, but the company may still be registered.”
The source said intelligence gathered by the DEA points to a meeting that might have taken place in Tobago close to two years ago, which triggered this multi-million dollar clandestine operation.
“What we were told was that a South American drug lord, masking as a Venezuelan, who we believe is actually a Colombian, met with a local businessman, who gave him the assurance they can move the product through here.”
The drug smugglers plotted how to move millions of dollars in cocaine from Colombia to this country and then to the United States.
This mutual meeting, law enforcement sources say, soon turned into a lucrative trade, with the businessman promising to ensure the cocaine left here undetected. But what they did not realise was that from early on, the DEA was on to them.
Yesterday afternoon DEA agents, along with members of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) and other high-ranking law enforcement officials, met from close to 2.30 p.m. for almost two hours to strategise the way forward in dealing with this drug bust.
Sources in the US, when contacted, also indicated Homeland Security has now taken active charge of the investigation and is working closely with the DEA.
Following the high-powered meeting at the SSA building at St Vincent Street, Port of Spain, senior intelligence sources informed the Express and TV6 News about some of the plans discussed to tackle this investigation.
“They are planning to pursue the North American link. It is big, and a lot of what they will be doing is high level. We have been told that this cocaine shipment eventually destined for New York is being distributed by several organised crime gangs within that area,” the source said.
The source revealed plans were afoot by the DEA, both local and foreign agents, to move in on the local person fingered in the operation.
Sources say the main man is originally from Central Trinidad.
“We have been told this man heads a local organised crime group that sanitises their money in underground canals and is very connected.”
The Express and TV6 News understand DEA officials may ask the local man involved “to flip” and turn informant and provide them with key information to assist in their far-reaching drug operation, with the intent to arrest key pla­yers.
This is not the first time mega loads of cocaine have been exported with the use of export products and the use of the exportation systems.
In fact, in 1995, DEA officers cracked open a massive operation in this country when cocaine was found in fish being exported, and two Trinidadian men were extradited to the US, where they were convicted for cocaine trafficking.

[whyteliver]

lol @ bloodshed.....this kind of load was not done by some lil sealots gangster..the people that did this have deep pockets and can pay that debt (2 mansion sell and debt paid) and this was not a first time thing. As the article said its a business and bloodshed is bad for business...

What about the void that was created by such a bust?
Someone is now short on supply and very unhappy.
Heads will roll once again.

i was trying to figure out what fantasy world he living in with ".the people that did this have deep pockets and can pay that debt (2 mansion sell and debt paid) "

Drugs are usually bought on consignment , you feel dem fellas buy that @ wholesale price and store to move themselves? Wholesale on this was what about $12M US so what 2 mansions here are US$6M apiece? Plus is not just the cash issue but the exposure, right now bumsies musbe clapping

first of all pal if its consigned or got at the mainland price it is not I repeat ITS NOT $12m US...its a hell of a lot less... that 12m quoted is the wholesale price when it reach were its going...and YES 2 mansion can pay that debt...unlike yourself my comments are not based on an express article or what mark bassant says.

[eliteauto]

[tr1ad]

*insert bada$$ gif*

[janfar]

I didn't realise we have drug lawyers in here... What movie I need to watch to be as informed as you guys???

[bluesteel29]

unlike yourself my comments are not based on an express article or what mark bassant says.

huh ya pumpin d fishscale awah

[janfar]

She is probably one ah dem naked woman in the room cutting up and measuring the yayo

[pioneer]

Lewwe sling sumn nah dan

[janfar]

Lewwe sling sumn nah dan

Pios for Dole Heisenberg

[eliteauto]

She is probably one ah dem naked woman in the room cutting up and measuring the yayo

[Slow Poke]

Gary Griffith....the first Minister of National Security to Plagiarize a Drug Bust.....hopefully the DEA would be able to keep the Mr and Mrs Bigs under Lok and key....

[zoom rader]

lol @ bloodshed.....this kind of load was not done by some lil sealots gangster..the people that did this have deep pockets and can pay that debt (2 mansion sell and debt paid) and this was not a first time thing. As the article said its a business and bloodshed is bad for business...

What about the void that was created by such a bust?
Someone is now short on supply and very unhappy.
Heads will roll once again.

i was trying to figure out what fantasy world he living in with ".the people that did this have deep pockets and can pay that debt (2 mansion sell and debt paid) "

Drugs are usually bought on consignment , you feel dem fellas buy that @ wholesale price and store to move themselves? Wholesale on this was what about $12M US so what 2 mansions here are US$6M apiece? Plus is not just the cash issue but the exposure, right now bumsies musbe clapping

first of all pal if its consigned or got at the mainland price it is not I repeat ITS NOT $12m US...its a hell of a lot less... that 12m quoted is the wholesale price when it reach were its going...and YES 2 mansion can pay that debt...unlike yourself my comments are not based on an express article or what mark bassant says.

You are learning fast bro

[Gem_in_i]

Someone called names?

[rfari]

She is probably one ah dem naked woman in the room cutting up and measuring the yayo

Laaawd

[White CZ4A]

real sheit..
use the local link as an informant?
sigh..now it'll take forever to find out who it is.
I really am interested to know the local businessman

[src1983]

real sheit..
use the local link as an informant?
sigh..now it'll take forever to find out who it is.
I really am interested to know the local businessman

Yup it's a money thing...

[shogun]

Gary Griffith....the first Minister of National Security to Plagiarize a Drug Bust...

Heh...