Stunning Coast Guard crew video shows them in action stopping narco sub

Dramatic video shows Coast Guard leaping onto submarine carrying 17,000 pounds of cocaine

NBC News
By Doha Madani
July 11, 2019

Crew members can be seen jumping onto a moving narco-sub and busting open the hatch in the USCG video.

The U.S. Coast Guard released video Thursday of service members leaping onto a submarine carrying 17,000 pounds of cocaine as part of a months long, $569 million cocaine bust.

A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro can be seen in the video yelling at an unidentified aquatic vehicle to stop as it moved alongside the cutter at the surface of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Crew members then jump onto the top of the mostly submerged vessel as it's moving and bust open the hatch.

A person inside the vessel can be seen briefly just as the hatch opens at the end of the minute long video.

About 17,000 pounds of cocaine were found inside along with five suspected smugglers, the U.S. Coast Guard told NBC News on Thursday. The estimated street value of the drugs is $232 million.

Self-propelled submersible vessels, often called “narco-subs,” are sometimes used by cartels and traffickers to smuggle drugs across borders.

The operation, which occurred June 18, was one of 14 drug-smuggling vessels intercepted off the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America by three Coast Guard cutters between May and July of this year. A total of 39,000 pounds of cocaine and 933 pounds of marijuana, were seized in that time, for an estimated worth of $569 million, according to a press release Thursday.
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Camp Lejeune sixth grade teacher arrested on heroin charges

Camp Lejeune teacher, boyfriend arrested on heroin charges
WCTI 12 News
By Alison Parker
Sep 23 2013

CAMP LEJEUNE, ONSLOW COUNTY
A sixth-grade teacher at Camp Lejeune and her boyfriend have been arrested on heroin charges.

Thersea Catherine Fedor, 53, of Hubert, is a sixth-grade teacher at Brewster Middle School, according to Camp Lejeune Public Affairs Director Nat Fahy. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service took Fedor into custody at the district superintendent's office Friday morning, Fahy said.

Fedor has been placed on administrative leave pending results of the investigation, said Camp Lejeune District Superintendent Aldridge Boone.

"The welfare of the students is our primary consideration at this particular time," Boone said. "We will definitely have a qualified substitute teacher to come in and take over classes until this is resolved."
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Veterans charged with dealing drugs to patients at New Jersey VA Hospital

7 Veterans Accused of Dealing Heroin, Cocaine to Patients in 2 New Jersey Veterans Hospitals:
Feds
Federal prosecutors say the defendants used their access to the buildings to supply fellow veterans with dangerous drugs
NBC New York
By Jonathan Dienst, Joe Valiquette and Brian Thompson
Tuesday, Jul 9, 2013

Seven veterans with access to two Veterans Administration Hospitals in New Jersey are accused of dealing heroin and cocaine to patients being treated at the facilities, including some who were seeking help for addiction, federal prosecutors said.

The FBI and investigators from the VA inspector general's office arrested five of the men at the veterans hospital in Lyons Tuesday morning; one man was arrested at the facility in East Orange and another was taken into custody at his home.

The seven men, all of whom live in New Jersey and range in age from 31 to 66, are charged in separate criminal complaints with a range of counts, including supplying heroin, cocaine and hydromorphone to patients at the hospitals, prosecutors said. Five of the suspects worked in various capacities at the two hospitals.
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Drug dealers arrested at West Palm Beach VA

After all they are drug dealers if they sold medication intended for disabled veterans. Fire the employees and the rest of the honest employees should be demanding this. Cut the veterans off who decided to sell their medications and the rest of the disabled veterans should demand this as well. This VA "The VA center is almost like a little city," Coleman said. "There's 8,000 to 10,000 people a day that come through here." so if there were 21 criminals out of all of these veterans then they need to be held accountable for harming the rest of them.

Undercover Drug Probe Yields 21 Arrests At VA Center

Thousands Of Oxycodone Pills, $2,000 In Cash Seized

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A seven-month-long investigation into prescription-drug dealing culminated in significant arrests at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Palm Beach on Thursday.

The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office conducted the probe inside the center, targeting VA workers and veterans alike, WPBF 25 News' Tory Dunnan reported.

"We were able to purchase narcotics from 21 individuals on the property here," PBSO spokesman Eric Coleman said.

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McDonald's invaders turn out to be police

McDonald's invaders turn out to be police
Sarasota officers stormed restaurant to nab drug suspect
By Anthony Cormier
Published Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
Last updated Friday, July 11, 2008 at 11:20 p.m.

SARASOTA — Undercover police officers stormed a McDonald's restaurant and ordered diners and employees to the ground as they tried to catch a suspected cocaine dealer Thursday.

The Sarasota police officers were dressed in black, carried rifles and wore masks when they ran into the restaurant on the corner of Beneva and Fruitville roads. They burst through the door at dinner time, yelled for patrons to hide under tables and chased a 24-year-old man who hid in a bathroom.

It was a drug sting that went bad because of a milkshake.

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Can you imagine the trauma the customers and employees went through?

Drug bust goes bad; innocent woman killed

July 11, 2008
Drug bust goes bad; innocent woman killed

PINELLAS PARK -- A South Carolina mother was killed and four others were hospitalized in a police drug bust that went bad.

Officers with the Pinellas Park Police vice squad completed an undercover drug bust about 9 p.m. in a parking lot when the two male suspects involved in the drug buy sped away from a police maneuver attempting to block them in, said Capt. Sanfield Forseth. Police were unable to stop the car, a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, but did not chase it, Forseth said.

The Monte Carlo sped south on U.S. 19 and slammed into a Ford Taurus that was traveling on 70th Avenue North.

The driver of the Taurus, Nachenga E. Robinson, 32, of Florence, S.C., was killed. Her three children - Obadiah Y. Robinson, 11, I'on Robinson, 8, and Eric J. Robinson, 13, - and passenger Caroline Johnson, 51, were taken to area hospitals. Their conditions were not immediately available.
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