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The Civil Guard, which said it was the largest seizure of cocaine smuggled into southern Spain by speedboat, posted video on social media showing officers unearthing the alleged drugs.
Coca paste (paco, basuco, oxi, pasta) is a crude extract of the coca leaf which contains 40% to 91% cocaine freebase along with companion coca alkaloids and varying quantities of benzoic acid, methanol, and kerosene. In South America, coca paste, also known as cocaine base and, therefore, often confused with cocaine sulfate in North America, is ...
Coca leaf is the raw material for the manufacture of the drug cocaine, a powerful stimulant and anaesthetic extracted chemically from large quantities of coca leaves. Today, since it has mostly been replaced as a medical anaesthetic by synthetic analogues such as procaine, cocaine is best known as an illegal recreational drug.
Trituration of the free base from cocaine hydrochloride (or "cooking") is done by dissolving the cocaine hydrochloride in water over constant heat, while simultaneously adding a base (such as baking soda) to form the free base cocaine. The free base of cocaine forms a solid "rock", pieces of which can be smoked directly (crack cocaine). [4]
Customs agents pulled almost 2 tons of drugs from dozens of vats of fiery jalapeño paste that had been seized from a commercial tractor-trailer near the Otay Mesa border.
Authorities found 349 packages in vats of jalapeño paste containing over 3,000 pounds of methamphetamine and over 500 pounds of cocaine at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility, according to a news ...
Agents on patrol discovered two backpacks stuffed with more than $1.1 million worth of cocaine in Washington state near the border with Canada, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday. The ...
Agents assigned to the Blaine Sector in Lynden, Washington found two black backpacks in a wooded area near the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release Monday.