Coke Boat Busted With 3,300 Pounds of Blow on Board

Coast Guard finds vessel near Jamaica stuffed with nose candy

By Brian Hamacher
|  Friday, Jul 17, 2009  |  Updated 5:55 AM PST
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Coke Boat Busted With 3,300 Pounds of Blow on Board

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The Coast Guard intercepted a boat with some 3,300 pounds of cocaine on board.

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A Coast Guard crew in the waters between Honduras and Jamaica were blown away when they found a boat packed with enough cocaine to make Scarface shiver.

The crew of Cutter Vigorous boarded a Honduran-registered vessel named Capt Lem about 170 miles Southwest of Jamaica in June and found 3,300 pounds of the Bolivian marching powder stuffed into 77 packages, according to a report released today.

The search must have been quick. The blow weighs about as much as a small car.

The Vigorous crew transferred the crewmembers and cocaine to FBI agents in Port Canaveral on Monday.

Posted Monday, Jul 27, 2009 - 9:07 AM PST
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