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What was the biggest drug bust ever in U.S.A history?

Q: Like anwhere fron Miami,New york, New jersey, California….etc

A: if you listen to the headlines most all of them are the biggest ever! http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/020697.html#cpbColombian Police Bust Biggest-Ever Cocaine LabBOGOTA (Reuter, Jan. 31, 1997) The biggest clandestine drug laboratory ever discovered in Colombia, the world’s largest producer of cocaine and a top supplier of heroin, was dismantled on Thursday, authorities said. National Police chief Gen. Rosso Jose Serrano said 8.5 tons of cocaine and vast quantities of chemicals were seized in a raid on the facility, in a remote settlement in southeastern Guaviare province. “This has been a huge blow to the narco-traffickers. The losses for them are incalculable. This is the biggest (drug) laboratory I have seen in my life,” said Serrano. The 1.5 square mile (4 sq km) complex in a jungle zone known as Puerto Cordoba was capable of producing up to 50 tons of cocaine a month and was operated by what Serrano described as the fledgling “Eastern Plains” drug cartel. Little is known about the cartel, said to be led by a woman. But Serrano said leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels provided protection for the sprawling laboratory, which was equipped with its own airstrip and housing for scores of workers. “It’s bigger even than Tranquilandia,” Serrano told Reuters, referring to a huge lab operated by the now defunct Medellin cartel that grabbed world headlines in 1984. “Oceans of cocaine were coming out of this place to supply international markets,” Serrano said. He said about 100 crack anti-narcotics police participated in the raid on the drug lab, dubbed “Operation Jungle,” early on Wednesday. They finished dismantling it on Thursday. No arrests were made and police denied initial reports to the effect that helicopters, speedboats and one airplane had been seized. The latest strike against Colombia’s criminal drug syndicates comes amid growing speculation that the Andean nation will be “decertified” by Washington in March for its alleged failure to participate actively enough in the global fight against drugs. Decertification, for a second consecutive year, could trigger punitive U.S. economic sanctions against the country that U.S. President Bill Clinton fell short of imposing last year. Serrano was among the most vocal critics of the U.S. decision to decertify Colombia last year, saying no other country has made more sacrifices to stem the flow of illegal drugs onto U.S. streets. In a separate incident near the town of Usme, at the southern edge of the capital Bogota, FARC rebels ambushed a group of crack-anti kidnap troops, killing one and injuring three, police said.http://www.madcowprod.com/02212006.htmlThe almost-complete post-9/11 embargo on sensitive information illustratesthe lengths authorities have gone to suppress, sanitize, and remove from the historical record crucial evidence about what really happened inimical to the ‘official story.’They especially don’t want nosy reporters uncovering and reporting on this amazing fact: During the same month that Atta and his bodyguard Marwan Al-Shehhi began flying lessons at Huffman Aviation, (July, 2000) flight school owner Wally Hilliard’s Lear jet was seized on the runway of Orlando Executive Airport by DEA agents who found 43-pounds of heroin onboard. This is not “conspiracy theory.” This is conspiracy fact. A story in the August 2, 2000 Orlando Sentinel, for example, labeled the bust “the biggest drug seizure in central Florida history.” 43 pounds of heroin is known in the drug trade as “heavy weight.”http://www.cato.org/dispatch/03-20-02d.htmlFBI Busts LA Marijuana Ring in LAAn alleged nationwide marijuana distribution ring with direct links to a major Mexican trafficking organization was broken up Tuesday in a series of raids that netted at least a dozen arrests, UPI reports.An 18-month investigation dubbed Operation Jaguar resulted in the seizures of more than 10 tons of marijuana plus 41 kilos (90.2 pounds) of cocaine and around $1 million in cash. A dozen of the people named in a federal indictment out of Los Angeles were arrested Tuesday while seven others were picked up earlier.News of the busts became public early Tuesday when a television news helicopter broadcast live images of agents hauling dozens of blue plastic-wrapped boxes out of the garage of a home in a middle-class neighborhood in Downey and piling them up on the driveway.”As far as the organizational strength and what they were doing and the direct ties they had with the cartels in northern Mexico, this was one of the significant groups,” said Richard Garcia, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office.In “Is Mexico the Next Colombia?” vice president for defense and foreign policy studies Ted Galen Carpenter writes that Mexico is beginning to resemble Colombia a decade or so ago. “Of all the similarities between Colombia and Mexico, the most troubling may be the increasingly pervasive violence. It is no longer just the cocaine and heroin trade that is characterized by bloodshed. Even the marijuana trade, which traditionally had generated little violence, is now accompanied by horrific killings. Indeed, the biggest and bloodiest massacres over the past three years in Mexico have involved marijuana trafficking, not trafficking in harder drugs.”In “The Hydra-Headed Drug Business,” executive vice president David Boaz writes, “It seems that not a week goes by without a report of “New Hampshire’s biggest drug bust,” “the biggest drug bust in middle Georgia history,” “the largest drug bust ever in the United States outside of Florida,” or–drum roll, please–“the largest drug bust in history.” He argues that “As long as Americans want to use drugs, and are willing to defy the law and pay high prices to do so, drug busts are futile. Other profit-seeking smugglers and dealers will always be ready to step in and take the place of those arrested.”http://www.cato.org/dailys/6-30-98.htmlBut careful news watchers have heard those words before. It seems that not a week goes by without a report of “New Hampshire’s biggest drug bust,” “the biggest drug bust in middle Georgia history,” “the largest drug bust ever in the United States outside of Florida,” or — drum roll, please — “the largest drug bust in history.”Law enforcement agents and journalists both love those stories — they publicize the “success” of the war on drugs, and they offer the journalists great visuals and great numbers. Helpful police flacks always provide some sexy dollar figures — cocaine with a street value of $3.3 million, $20 million, $73 million, $2 billion.In a 1991 San Francisco case, billed as the biggest heroin bust ever, television cameras panned over 59 boxes containing 1,080 pounds of heroin — enough to supply each of the country’s estimated 500,000 heroin addicts for a month. Drug war officials said the street value of the heroin was $2.7 billion to $4 billion.It’s true that the drug warriors are interdicting more drugs at our borders all the time. Seizures of cocaine rose from 20,000 pounds in 1983 to 179,000 pounds in 1989 to 239,000 pounds in 1997. But does that indicate success? More likely, it means that more drugs are crossing our borders and officials are interdicting about the same percentage as before.

I rented a house and found out that their was a big drug bust and it was a meth lab. was he suppose to tell us?

Q: I want to know if he was supposed to disclose that information before renting to us.and if i can break the lease because of it.

A: If (possibly a big if) it’s been cleaned correctly then there’s no issue here. He also doesn’t have to disclose the murder of previous occupants or asbestos that’s been removed.

When the police do a big drug bust, and acquire a large sum of money. Where does that money go.?

Q: you always hear of police busting big drug operations where they sieze all sort of money and drugs. what do the police or government do with the millions in siezed cash and drugs.

A: Everything seized is held in evidence until the accused is found guilty or pleads guilty. After all appeals have been heard, the money is given to the police department for official use, ie; vehicles, equipment, undercover drug buys. Any drugs seized are destroyed.