Six men charged in connection with one of the largest drug seizures in U.S. history this week at the port of Philadelphia, where nearly 17 tons of cocaine with a street value of more than $1 billion was confiscated.
Six men have been charged in connection with one of the largest drug seizures in U.S. history this week at the port of Philadelphia, where nearly 17 tons of cocaine with a street value of more than $1 billion was confiscated.
"To those who were aboard the ship, and are now in federal custody, I say this: You thought you could breeze into our port and then leave with enough cocaine to destroy millions of lives without getting caught," he said."You thought you were clever. You were wrong.""We must do everything we can to dismantle international drug trafficking organizations who destroy the lives of those who are addicted to drugs," he said.
"Laid end to end, all the bricks cover a distance of about two and a half miles," said Casey Durst of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection."Really, it's just incredible." "We're not going to get into the details of how the cocaine got onto the boat and what the plans were," he said.
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