Tag: 20 TON COCAINE

  • The Politics of Contraband (from Gangster Planet)

    The Politics of Contraband (from Gangster Planet)

    On June 17, 2019, a massive 20-ton cocaine bust went down at the port of Philadelphia aboard a container ship calling at the port.  Today is the one-year anniversary of that drug bust, the second largest in American history, and one of five covered in “Gangster Planet.” Agents from a multi-agency Federal task force swarmed…

  • 140 Days After the Perfect Crime

    140 Days After the Perfect Crime

    It’s been 140 days since the second largest drug bust in American history went down in the waters off-shore of the Port of Philadelphia. Agents from a multi-agency Federal task force swarmed aboard a two block-long container ship, the MSC GAYANE, the second largest in the world. It marked the beginning of Containergate. They found…