Wow.Blues wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 3:13 pmA lot. It gets stepped on a few times before it hits the street (at the consumer level). It would usually get handed off a few times before that.roamingzebra wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 3:04 pmInteresting.Blues wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 7:34 am (Also, as regards the tension between the CIA and DEA, and their working at cross purposes. If you want to see an example of this, here's a link to a "60 Minutes" clip focusing on an investigation I worked with a co-case agent for a few years in the early '90s: https://youtu.be/IF-IYdsFGrw . It had quite a bit of political and international intrigue. I had no idea this was going to be broadcast, nor did I participate in its making.)
1000 kilos of coccaine works out to about how many street sales?
(That particular consignment of cocaine never hit the street. I seized it and ended up arresting (and convicting) the entire organization, including a bad cop. But I discovered a pattern of shipments that had already been sent prior to our finding out about this operation.)
Making small street corner busts wasn't what we were involved in or about. We'd do entries on homes, commercial operations, warehouses, aircraft, and maritime vessels for "trafficking quantity" loads and take down the individuals and operations, then work our way back to the source...domestically as well as internationally.
Narcotics was only one of several areas of investigation I worked over the years. (But it was often the most fun.)
Thank you for your service.