INTERNATIONAL DRUG SMUGGLING_ Inside Shipping’s Record Cocaine Bust

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Inside Shipping’s Record Cocaine Bust

An audacious effort to use a 9,400-mile commercial trade lane as an international drug smuggling corridor came apart in a nighttime raid on a ship at sea




Some of the 39,000 pounds of cocaine U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations seized on the MSC Gayane in seven shipping containers in Philadelphia on June 17. Photo: Steve Sapp/U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Reuters


By Costas Paris
July 24, 2019 9:05 pm ET


On a cloudy evening on June 16, the MSC Gayane was making its way into Delaware Bay for a stopover at the Port of Philadelphia when it was intercepted by boats carrying about a dozen armed U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other federal agents.

Agents climbed a rope ladder onto the container ship and checked first to see if locks on the steel containers that hold millions of dollars worth of goods were intact. “The seals on some boxes didn’t look right,” a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Customs officers escorted the 1,031-foot-long ship, part of a Mediterranean Shipping Co. fleet that handles a significant share of the world’s seaborne trade, to the port in South Philadelphia, and early the next morning seven of the boxes were X-rayed and opened to reveal “bales and bales of cocaine,” according to U.S. officials.

It took about a week to weigh and document the bricks. In all, they weighed 39,525 pounds—nearly 20 tons. The haul, with an estimated street value of $1.3 billion, was the largest drug seizure in the 230-year history of the U.S. customs agency and one of the biggest ever by American authorities.

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