Billion Dollar Cocaine Bust - High Stakes Sting on the High Seas

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Жыл бұрын

Cartel shenanigans moving product across oceans to one of its hottest markets reveals an evolution in the global movement of bulk cocaine - as well as high seas drama from cops trying to stop it. Let me tell you about
The Mob Reporter here with news from the frontlines of the cat and mouse drug war, featuring sneaky cops on two continents versus clumsy narcos, lousy sailors and sellers with an endless supply.
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It was sloppy mistakes that tipped police in Australia to the latest wild tale of logistics gone awry; sloppiness and, dare I say, incompetence. Police in Australia say their case began in May with an intelligence tip that a bulk cargo carrier was heading to the Western Australian coast with a large load of cocaine. As police were monitoring marine traffic looking for suspect ships, there was an emergency rescue call from a small boat in distress; with three men onboard it floundered 13 miles off Australia’s west coast. When police learned the men had bought the boat with cash just hours before setting out to sea - with only themselves as the makeshift, inexperienced crew, it was a substantial red flag. Police suspected they were trying to connect with the incoming cargo ship. Officers looked for likely ships in the area at the time the cabin cruiser set sail. One stood out: The St. Pinot. It left South America a month before. The day after the rescue of the cabin cruiser, Australian Border Force officers intercepted the St. Pinot at sea. A Royal Australian Navy dive team retrieved 29 packages wrapped in blue plastic that were submerged in a water-filled ballast tank.
These alleged narcos were apparently not frightened off by startling revelations of a large international caper that played out in the same waters. Nearly a billion dollars’ worth of coke was seized by U.S. authorities off the coast of South America in November. The DEA realized buyers in Australia would have no idea the load had been nabbed. Police made replicas of the illicit load, and pushed it overboard off the coast of Perth. Police then secretly watched to see who came to fetch it. Two boats arrived and started loading the parcels. Nine men were arrested in a series of raids on hotels and a marina around Perth on New Year’s Eve. The operation was kept secret until March.
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Music is "To Pass Time" by Godmode // "Frequency" by Silent Partner;
Bulk carrier video by Kelly, Small boat on water video by Martina Tomšič, Boat at marina video by Mark Lane, Cargo ship video by Stephen Pierce, and Ship in river video by Nick C, all at Pexels; Vintage map video by Videvo;
Pinot nameplate photo by Max Wei at marinetraffic.com and Pinot loading in Australia photo by Hans Fairhurst at marinetraffic;
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@joeparker2725 Жыл бұрын

"Drugs are ruining your life, so if we catch you with drugs, we put you in jail and ruin your life"

@questioneverything4633 Жыл бұрын

It's a money game. The military industrial complex makes money protecting the drug farms and maintaining power in other countries, the CIA makes money trafficking the big shipments to places where they want to weaken the populace, and the local police and governments make tons of money arresting and abusing the low-level users and dealers while also making lucrative deals and protecting the dealers they like. At every step of the way, evil people get tax-free, untraced billions to spend on their evil, illegal agendas which in turn destroy the world.

@OrangeJuiceDripping Жыл бұрын

Basically

@Blanko.84 Жыл бұрын

in regard to crime and money going into the wrong hands ,Its sale is basically creating a multi headed dragon that society doesnt really need...

@hipsonsogbo Жыл бұрын

Word

@miquelr2353 Жыл бұрын

Same logic my parents used

@markc6714 Жыл бұрын

Nothing in the Australian media about this

@ianmackie8959 Жыл бұрын

That's why TMR rocks

@markc6714 Жыл бұрын

@@walterwiseman7112 nope it wasn't

@joshuad1716 Жыл бұрын

Man it’s been a while, glad the mob reporter is back to tell me more about it

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

It has been too long, I've been busy. Thank you for your patience.

@toxicavenger7073 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMobReporter thank you for your stories and breakdowns of all the current day crimes and who's doing what

@az0970449 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMobReporter hopefully your getting some of this pouring rain were getting to knock down those wild fires up there ?

@TransitionedToAShark Жыл бұрын

@@TheMobReporter been busy? Side effects or women?

@TheBmco99 Жыл бұрын

We need him more often like at these once a week 😂

@wildnfree101 Жыл бұрын

I never knew the words, 'let me tell you about it', would have me excited, or should I say eager (maybe both) to watch a video. Thank you Mob Reporter.

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

This makes me happy, TF.

@AngrySoybean-j Жыл бұрын

@@TheMobReporter since I subscribed I thought that is a very catchy phrase like McD's (I'm lovin it)

@andresng8284 Жыл бұрын

C 0:43 0:43 0:43 0:43 0:44 the same, I have been working in to see 😄🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈😅😅😅😅--😊

@somerandomfella Жыл бұрын

Bringing a whole new meaning to pump and dump. Pump production, dump in the ocean 🤦‍♂️

@jasonellenberg3261 Жыл бұрын

I have a completely different meaning of pump and dump. eg: " hey Terry make sure you give her the ol' pump and dump tonight"

@Iswhatitisssss Жыл бұрын

@@jasonellenberg3261him*

@somerandomfella Жыл бұрын

@@Iswhatitisssss smh.. 🤣😔

@ottofriedman2827 Жыл бұрын

*narcos watching this taking furious notes on what not to do 😂

@THYCR3AT0R Жыл бұрын

5:03 LMAO surely no cop took that one brick that woulda made it even...

@Tim_Bo_ Жыл бұрын

No way! There was definitely only 26 bricks. But maybe one way lost at sea

@MrMazRx Жыл бұрын

hahahaha suckers ! chasing plasterboard in the ocean is a classic !

@pkilznah5353 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite channels. Love it when I see a new mob video ✊🔥🔥🔥

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support, PK.

@MolonyProductions Жыл бұрын

i love this vdeos series

@kylerooskov5913 Жыл бұрын

love being this early, think I was on the last one too. Great vid TMR - Aus.

@jeffomalley6015 Жыл бұрын

I like how they cut down the big circus 🎪 tent to use the fabric to wrap up the bails of coke lol.

@mo938 Жыл бұрын

The Mob Reporter said "yeet". My life is complete. I'm a poet and didn't know it.

@Raymondapples Жыл бұрын

Welcome backn

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Lots more to come, BR.

@Raymondapples Жыл бұрын

@@TheMobReporter those are good news....

@smokebob359 Жыл бұрын

As 69 once said “HANG HANG HANG HANG”

@ianmackie8959 Жыл бұрын

It's been reported lately of Orca whales attacking small boats off the west coast of North America...just wondering here if "coke floats " have anything to do with these singular occurances???

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

#CocaineKillerWhales!!

@Adam-ql1xe Жыл бұрын

Well Orcas are & Should be the Bouncers ( Human Protecters at every Beach ) They love the Great White Sharks Liver It would Keep Human Surfers Swimmers Safe But I Don’t Know about a Coked Up Bouncer 🤣 You could be onto something Sad if the Orcas have been affected

@HLBNZ Жыл бұрын

My mind is blown! It's absolutely possible which is kinda scary! Best thought provoking comment that I've heard all year!👍👍

@Peter-fo4ec Жыл бұрын

Orcas attacking boats , there just Jonesing looking for more coke

@Agapy8888 Жыл бұрын

Let me tell you about. Sweetest words.

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear, G8

@dontcare7086 Жыл бұрын

They named the boat "Cool Runnings" 😂😂😂 They must really love that movie about the Jamaican bobsled team LOL!

@Dwigt_Rortugal Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. "No one remembers that movie anymore!" Kind of a cheesy name for a boat.

@ARMY-ep6fz Жыл бұрын

He's back! Tell me about it!!!!

@DaveSCameron Жыл бұрын

It's some kind of game for rich or sick people as we see the only casualties of the War on Drugs are those like you, me and our friends...

@DaveSCameron Жыл бұрын

@LEAP

@benjammin9745 Жыл бұрын

The war on drugs was started when? Oh yeah, June 1971. What a lot of good that has done.

@DaveSCameron Жыл бұрын

@@benjammin9745 It's a sham, especially when we're given evidence of other American agencies of government actually dealing in it! We are being played!

@benjammin9745 Жыл бұрын

It's a war on consciousness and personal freedom is what it is. Who has a right to tell me what I can and can't put in my own body? If I'm not harming you or your's then why does it matter?

@DaveSCameron Жыл бұрын

@@benjammin9745 I think you are missing the point, such substances are responsible for the devolution of our societies, they have enriched criminals exponentially, for everyone who enjoys drugs there's 2 more who die from them, in the 1950s our gaol population from drug crimes was below 5% today it's at 85%, I don't need to mention that drug crimes can be trafficking, stealing for, possession, dealing, conspiracy, violence for debts etc etc. SO if anyone is content with all this and worse they need drugs themselves. @UKLEAP

@TylerWilliams-pd5wz Жыл бұрын

Love the early access from patron 🤪

@frederick6008 Жыл бұрын

Where you been man.

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

I have had to do things, sorry, including fighting with YT about platform issues that were strangling my channel. We *may* have found some solutions.

@itsthatwutangguy.9370 Жыл бұрын

wu tang..

@AngrySoybean-j Жыл бұрын

........ and just how much still gets through 🙄

@igordrakulovic6857 Жыл бұрын

..and how many people never get touched apart of these sailors, runners etc. The investors behind the load. Respected public figures, politicians, lawyers etc.

@benjammin9745 Жыл бұрын

Shiat what about the banks? You know why you see a bank on every corner? There's a lot of drug money that gets pumped into the economic circulatory system, and the money needs to be cleaned before it can enter the blood. All the illicit money subsidizes banks, and we have too many because of it. I bet if all the illegal drug money stopped flowing right this instant, there would be massive banking sector collapse.

@Gayaa4uDr Жыл бұрын

@@igordrakulovic6857 This isn't a 3rd world country, its Australia, politicians have no part

@Nik-xi2ri Ай бұрын

@@Gayaa4uDrperhaps not directly.

@FacePalmTheWorldArmy Жыл бұрын

Another great show!!

@CanadianTommy Жыл бұрын

Thanks @themobreporter for yet another great video 👍🏻 Can't wait for the next one 😀

@mrj5695 Жыл бұрын

Got damn someone in trouble

@emptybucket1988 Жыл бұрын

Honey drop everything you are doing Why Mob Reporter is here

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Sorry to interrupt....

@emptybucket1988 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMobReporter TMR i was only joking you never interrupt i'm always waiting for your vids

@Nightster79 Жыл бұрын

Always look forward to seeing one of your videos. Great as always

@moranmichael9226 Жыл бұрын

Good to see your back brother and thank you for another Great video 🙏

@joecole969 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mob Reporter! Always good content !

@sirkatarsirkatar7332 Жыл бұрын

Another great production, thank you!

@frostywest Жыл бұрын

I knew you’d finally hear of these in west Australia You could do a whole hr long special on all the busts out west they weren’t the 1st to call rescue and get busted 😂 Love your work mate

@rodneyfaulkner7453 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your reporting and imagery , I I am a Sand Groper - AKA Western Australian Perth Resident - Love seeing more content on the Drug Busts off our coast line

@Reedmen420 Жыл бұрын

been a while good to see you back sir

@petesenrab5691 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mob Reporter! Always look forward to your videos.

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Thanks, PS.

@karlashdown5228 Жыл бұрын

No need for thanks watching until the end is a Pleasure.Been Icy storm fronts coming in from your part of the globe to my slice of paradise even with Tse locked up is no end to that happening more often. Many Thanks as always to 'The Mob Reporter'.

@nickname3471 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou for all the great content, again & again.. Cheers from Australia.. 👍

@AJ12Gamer Жыл бұрын

So Australians can play find the coke for random coke drop offs even if they are not the ones who bought them? 😅 Sounds like free products up for the taking. 🤣😂

@apextroll Жыл бұрын

Imagine coming across a huge gyre of coke.

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

What would you do, though?

@luke125 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMobReporterDie happy

@apextroll Жыл бұрын

@@TheMobReporter Look for drones.👀

@stuartgmk Жыл бұрын

@@apextroll👍🇦🇺.................👀

@marymacphail728 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mob Reporter 👍🙂🇨🇦

@PGoose63 Жыл бұрын

Great video Mob Reporter!

@Njofrekk Жыл бұрын

Top content as always.Thank you!

@rexpayne7836 Жыл бұрын

Always the best and informative videos. Thanks.😊

@x13xmonkey Жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks for the new video-have been waiting:) 👍

@GDworld69 Жыл бұрын

My guy said yeet , things id never thought if hear haha , great video as always, price of the brick going up!!!

@stephenc9813 Жыл бұрын

Lovely work. Always a great story!

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Thanks, SC. Glad you like it.

@dazzratpac8557 Жыл бұрын

Love your work mate 🇦🇺

@1Curlon Жыл бұрын

Great reporting 👏

@seanokeefe703 Жыл бұрын

Just heard about a 100 + pound bust of coke in a traffic stop in Arkansas usa

@coloradomountainman8659 Жыл бұрын

But only 2 pounds ever showed up at court. Can't imagine where the other 98 pounds disappeared to.

@seanokeefe703 Жыл бұрын

@@coloradomountainman8659 wow

@MrMaxyield Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mob Reporter for telling us all about it...!

@smokebob359 Жыл бұрын

King king

@rumplekiltskinpiper4204 Жыл бұрын

Great to see you back on the tube hope you OK, hi frae scotland

@wayneclingman689 Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@socacom3902 Жыл бұрын

Always a great presentation. Thanks.

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, SC.

@Igor_tigor Жыл бұрын

I wonder how many narco sub shipments have made their way across the seas and through the continents since your last video? Great to see you back MR.

@CashanovaXTREME 6 ай бұрын

Too risky. You can always depend on good old fashioned corruption and use a regular cargo ship.

@marcoarizaga9038 Жыл бұрын

Good thing your back!

@jakemoeller7850 Жыл бұрын

Great video and reporting...thank you 👍

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, JM

@americansforhire5378 Жыл бұрын

What does US authorities have to do with this find?

@JonMurray Жыл бұрын

Yeeting it into the sea hahaha! So simple and so effective!

@peterestrada9420 Жыл бұрын

Good OnYa, Mobbie❣️❣️ The Best in TheBiz🤙😉

@badlarry172 11 ай бұрын

amazing upload thanks

@mrj5695 Жыл бұрын

Dea can’t mind their own drug business

@chris2fer1977 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to see another video on a Saturday at that. I never find anything like that in the ocean 😂

@wildcolonialman Жыл бұрын

Well, and thank you Mob Reporter. Just drop off into the ocean some where, and post coordinates and off they go. Stunning...

@Nimmy.. Жыл бұрын

Wheres the trillion dollar bust lol

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Only a matter of time, I think...

@Nimmy.. Жыл бұрын

@@TheMobReporter their was something on aljarreza channel about italian pakistani afghan mafia about the trillion laundered

@AngrySoybean-j Жыл бұрын

With rampant inflation ...... in a couple of years.😆

@bradsilva4537 Жыл бұрын

For channels on this gendre ...this channel is hands down the creme de le creme ... Most interesting and entertaining to watch 👌

@johnwest8771 Жыл бұрын

Like always great job keep it coming

@smokebob359 Жыл бұрын

Bing bing

@Jok3rDk Жыл бұрын

Ping pong

@smokebob359 Жыл бұрын

@@Jok3rDk Very bing

@christking85 Жыл бұрын

Is it bad that I wish there were more drug dealers so there would be more arrests and therefore more Mob Reporter videos?

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

I already have too many to tackle, no worries about that. I need more time not more busts!

@jolu7019 Жыл бұрын

Only 10 percent of what’s sent is intercepted. So yes there are more drug dealers out there just not enough MOB REPORTERS

@busterbeagle2167 Жыл бұрын

The feds just need to work harder. There’s plenty of drug dealers.

@Pyrrhic537 Жыл бұрын

@TheMobReporter Hi Sir I would be fascinated to see your views on the current state of Montreal after the attempts on Leonardo R and the passing away of FDB.

@christking85 Жыл бұрын

@@Pyrrhic537 You do see what kind of videos he produces right? lol. Lets not get him involved in politics. He opinions have nothing to do with this channel and would only cause issues for him regardless of what he thinks.

@starship399 Жыл бұрын

I want some coke now

@user-sh2iu6by6c Жыл бұрын

Love the content you bring s.m

@Repcitykickz Жыл бұрын

Another great video

@sirseegull Жыл бұрын

less than 1% of drugs being smuggled are intercepted. when will states stop enabling cartels and violent drug groups and just allow legal purchase already.

@fishingbob8374 Жыл бұрын

I’m a forever Mob Reporter supporter. Cause, unlike the subjects of his videos, he always delivers.

@M11xha Жыл бұрын

Would you believe me if i say that every day i check if You have posted something new 😅 Great work as always Mob 👏 Looking forward to next one

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your diligence and your patience. More to come

@detroitsfinest8060 Жыл бұрын

Keep telling us about it

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Doing what I can, DF. Thanks

@joelewis3071 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos

@michaelhume1207 Жыл бұрын

Great work 😊

@15spotznightlifecrew59 Жыл бұрын

Love your content always telling others to subscribe!

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you, 15.

@TM-yn4iu Жыл бұрын

I have looked for his video's as well, searching several times weekly. I am happy to hear the voice and watch the video. I should add moreover, happy he's healthy. Thanks

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

I am thank! Thank you for your concern. And thank. You for your patience! Xox

@tracytobin931 Жыл бұрын

It appears that international law enforcement, has become as crafty and tricky as the sophisticated international narcos !!! Great job on this video, Thanks Mob Reporter.

@stansmith1114 Жыл бұрын

LOL he only tells you about the ones they catch. .The fact syndicates collaborated to withhold merchandise for a month to stop the price plummeting on the streets tells a different story ,one that clearly shows authorities are not winning not even close.

@tracytobin931 Жыл бұрын

@@stansmith1114 amen to that bro. !!!

@LarryPeteet Жыл бұрын

Amazing!!

@ManfromJapan12 Жыл бұрын

As an Australian i can say that the cocaine trade is huge. I used to know a guy who knew this guy who had an uncle , whose brother had a friend .. this guy used to sell drugs and he said that his biggest money maker was booger sugar. I no longer live in Australia and no longer associate with this particular person.

@ryan0peck Жыл бұрын

so you're the dealer. and you've moved on to bigger and better things. translated by google.

@ashesoflaughter774 Жыл бұрын

The only true crime I watch anymore! Thank you mob reporter!

@kingkong67875 Жыл бұрын

"Let me tell you about it" you're living legend Mob reporter

@rcsnapon2132 Жыл бұрын

Good information my friend

@luke125 Жыл бұрын

The problem with cocaine these days isn’t the coke itself, it’s that it’s spiked with fentanyl. Me no like that fent. I remember the good times in the 80’s when we would get 8 balls right from the brick courtesy of Pablo Escobar and Friends. Yejo mama.

@BillyraycyrusIII Жыл бұрын

Someone didn't get their scheduled bribe.

@buzz5969 Жыл бұрын

Lots didnt get their guaranteed coke.😊

@dawesgap6544 Жыл бұрын

Another fascinating story - thanks TMR!

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it, DG.

@triple_gem_shining Жыл бұрын

@@TheMobReportery'all should kiss

@DougieBarclay Жыл бұрын

Wow, I live in Australia, had no idea! Time to buy me a boat and a very powerful pair of binoculars!

@Tek0nn Жыл бұрын

Comment for the algorithm. Thanks for the amazing journalist effort and content.

@u2fkeys665 Жыл бұрын

Good video 👍

@lachlanwelsh5880 Жыл бұрын

Western Australia used to be such a clean living place (except for the oceans of beer they drank). Then they discovered ice bc of the well paid mine workers coming over from the eastern states. Now they have graduated to the champagne of narcotics due to their disposable income and eventual realisation of how bad “shard” really is for you. Two comments for the algorithm and to welcome you back. Been too long!

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Thanks, LW.

@steveskrobot9496 Жыл бұрын

Thats just the point of entry. Its not all designated just for the west. Its less conspicuous than Botany or Port Melbourne!

@lachlanwelsh5880 Жыл бұрын

@@steveskrobot9496 - agree that a fair percentage of it will travel east. However a fair bit more than some might think will stay in WA. There are still a heck of a lot of single men with disposable income burning a hole in their pockets over there. Either way, the cartels have sure woken up to our relatively high prices when compared to the rest of the world (except NZ who have similarly crazy high prices) so the influx of tonnage into Australia will continue until pricing drops & the high relative profitability goes away. If prices ever do drop!!!

@lachlanwelsh5880 Жыл бұрын

Yay! You’re back, & starting out with some fun from my country… Shame it’s going to waste though.

@dave9351 Жыл бұрын

3 Thumbs UP ! Great reporting

@gazkaire4684 Жыл бұрын

Yeahhhh The Mob Reporter 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@hanktrill1498 Жыл бұрын

I need to get a boat and move to Australia 😂

@juliogonzo2718 Жыл бұрын

Just make sure you don't see a drone overhead

@154g Жыл бұрын

Those prices are high as giraffe nuts over there.

@lh7325 Жыл бұрын

@@154g Yeah, $250 a gram where I am. Goes up to $350 in some parts of the country too. Ridiculous.

@greghavens7679 Жыл бұрын

Do they honestly think that amount of coke would last years? Seriously? Not much of a social life I guess. No matter how much coke is at the party, it is going to run out before sunrise.

@TheMobReporter Жыл бұрын

Six month's supply, they said -- half a year. But as you say, supply creates its own consumption rate.

@triple_gem_shining Жыл бұрын

Lord knows they always get the numbers wrong. Try a couple weeks 😂

@triple_gem_shining Жыл бұрын

If not a single weekend.