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A narco-submarine captured by the Peruvian Navy in December 2019 [1]. A narco-submarine (also called a drug sub or narco-sub) is a type of custom ocean-going, self-propelled, semi-submersible or fully-submersible vessel built by (or for) drug smugglers.
Six “narco subs” filled with cocaine and other drugs were found en route to Australia by a team of international authorities led by Colombia.. A team of more than 60 countries, including the ...
In February, Colombian authorities on a search-and-rescue mission for two missing fishermen found a "narco sub" loaded with more than 4 tons of cocaine. A few weeks before that, the Colombian navy ...
Over 9 tons of cocaine from six separate drug smuggling events were seized last month and offloaded in San Diego on Wednesday, authorities said. ... It was found on a narco-submarine.
The first narco submarine was not intercepted until 2006 by the U.S. Coast Guard off of Costa Rica holding 3.5 tonnes of cocaine. Despite rumours of submarines being used by cartels in the 1990s, this was the first detection. [12] The number of narco submarine incidents has risen in recent years. The US Coast Guard reported 35 in 2018 and 36 in ...
In the mid-1990s, Fainberg attempted to purchase a Soviet diesel submarine for use in drug smuggling for a Colombian cocaine cartel. [2] Fainberg lived in Miami between 1990 and 1997 and owned a topless bar called Porky's, named for the movie. [3] He was arrested and convicted of smuggling and racketeering.
Spanish authorities intercepted another submarine suspected of transporting drugs to Europe from South America and arrested four Colombian nationals who were crewing the vessel, officials said ...
Drug charges were laid against the ship's entire crew. Of the thirty crew members arrested, twenty-seven were discharged on 5 March 2004 [ 12 ] by a magistrate on the basis that there was insufficient evidence for them to stand trial, although this number was reduced to twenty-six after it was later decided by Australian Federal Police that ...