41 million dollars in drug money seized by drug agents
In one of the largest money raids known to the DEA, a total of 41 million dollars was confiscated from the ports of Mexico and Columbia this week. The money was hidden in industrial chemical containers and I am sure that some drug lord is ripping the hair out of his skull right now.
[BBC]
The $33 Million Bronx Build-A-Bear Brown Bust
Authorities announced Saturday a massive heroin bust in the Bronx, where dealers were moving millions of dollars in dope inside Build-A-Bear dolls. ... The drugs were packaged in tiny glassine bags branded with names like Barack Obama, Swine Flu and Crime 360, a nod to a detective series on A&E. ... State, local and federal law enforcement officers seized 33 pounds of heroin with a street value of about $33 million. All the heroin was made in America, authorities said.
Buy American, and Americans do work, son!
[NYDailyNews via Newser]
The United Nations Is Overpaying for Cocaine
Today’s top news story emanates from the 320-page, UN World Drug Report 2009. It’s pretty dense, boring, run of the mill stuff, but one graphic caught my eye. The UN is overpaying for cocaine.
Who at the UN Office of Drugs and Crime is paying $120 a gram for yayo? Is that a government salary thing? TDR wouldn’t blow more than, like $45 a gram. Admittedly, it’s stepped-on Craigslist baby laxative, but you have to have some scruples.
Does San Francisco just pay wholesale prices? Please raise your hand if you paid $120 for a gram in 2008.
