Smuggling dugs over the boarder now easier with semi-submersible boats. These submarine type drug boats carry larger loads and they are quicker from Columbia to Miami. 23 cases within 3 months set the record for the combined previous 6 years. How the boats work they are strung onto other vessels and they just catch a ride to the coast.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/20/drug.subs/index.html
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The US Coast Guard predicts 80 cases by the end of the year and 120 cases in 2009. They, US Coast Guard, believe that these we made in response to putting snipers in helicopters to shoot out engines of regular smuggling boats. Older drug boats could only carry 4-5 metric tons of cargo the newer way can carry 12-13 metric tons of cargo. Not only has the cargo space been increased the speed is now up to 12 knots whihc is fast on the ocean.The punishment for drug smuggling in these cases is 20 years in prison. Drug smugglers will do anything to keep up the profit. Which last year a record 355,000 pounds of cocaine was seized. That on the streets would have equaled out to about 4.7 billion dollars. When I say they will do anything to keep it hidden they are now trying to liquefy cocaine and put it in fuel cells to keep it under radar.The rise of these million dollar submarines has heightened Coast Guard and DEA to be more weary of the water so they can fight back the drugs brought in the US. These boats are assembled in the Columbian jungles and put together. Althought they can't be fully submerged like a submarine they still pose a great threat to the US.
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