Two federal air marshals were arrested Thursday after allegedly agreeing to smuggle 15 kilograms of cocaine from Houston, Texas, to Las Vegas, Nev.
Shawn Ray Nguyen, 38, and Burlie Sholar, 32, appeared in federal court Monday to face charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. If convicted, they would face at least 10 years in prison and a possible life sentence.
Authorities said the pair had been smuggling drugs using their official position as federal air marshals to bypass airport security.
Read more: CNN
Oh, when will this ridiculous, stupid war on drugs finally end? Prohibition didn’t work the first time around; what makes people think it will work this time? All indications are that we’ve lost the war on drugs. It’s time to make them legal again so we can eliminate the corruption and violence that prohibition has caused.
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Anonymous
Feb 14, 2006
we have bloody lost the war on drugs? no way, yes we lost it on marijuana and cocaine and all drugs except the drugs they sell in pharmacies!!! lol
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Sep 19, 2006
The reason why the gouverment are so slack with weed dealers is that if
they were as on top as they are with coke dealers England would loose
lots of money, because in Amsterdam its legal so tourists and that would
head straight there, its a whole conspiracey, hell the gouvernment
are not against drugs, Houses of aprliment tested positive i think it
was something like 39 seats out of 40 for traces of cocaine, now dont
tell me they can blame that on the cleaner who does the toilets haveing
a cheeky line. The gouvernment make too much money out of Drugs beeingbrought into the country. Everytime you hear about a seizeure happening, like
15 kilograms of Cocaine, you can bet theres an even bigger shipment gone
out unoticed and the Gouvernment have only put that on the news to make it look as if there on top of the wholw “War on drugs”. Its to save face. To make
everything looking cousher.
Also everytime someone gets busted lets say for large quantities, i’m
talking ounces and Kilos, how many K’s do u think the cops write down
and charge them 4 and how many do u think they pocket and sell on them
selves, the cops are going 2 have bear contacts, after all there meeting
and arresting a lot of people, with one phone call they could sell a
couple of keys on the cheap with 100% profit in their pocket. And of
course the guy the have took it off int going to say out because, he’l
get an even harsher sentence. Its all a conspiracey, everyone wants to
make money out of it, its one of the best profitable buisnesses.
Dec 08, 2006
Corruption, crime inside Homeland Security - Homeland Stupidity
The Dude
Mar 27, 2007
I think as long as we live in a capitalist society and the all mighty dollar is “god” we will never see an end to illegal drug smuggling as long as there is a profit to be made. As long as there is a dollar to be had there will always be ways around security. There will always be crooked cops who chose money over there duties. Say drugs where in a closed system of legal distribution. People (adults) who want to buy for drugs could buy them from registered distributors just like a liquor store. They wouldn’t have to support a black market and fines for supporting illegal dealers could be very high. Governments would profit from increased tax revenue instead of cartels or drug lords and you would never have to deal with these problems (cops smuggling drugs). If you had the choice of buying your drugs from a reputable “distributor” with a receipt and proper packaging with warnings and where the drug was manufactured and the level of purity who in there right mind would go street level to score a zip lock bag full of off-white powder. You can’t compete with that. You would see a major decrease in organized drug crime. Or at least extra focus on taking down major illegal drug rings that would reduce overall impact of the illegal drug market on the world.
Anonymous
Apr 12, 2007
If drugs were legalized it will not mean more people will use them. I’m an adult male and I have no interest in using drugs, never have, never will there are other people who think as I do. People already using drugs would find it difficult to get any. They would most likely have to see a doctor first to obtain a prescription. This will cost them money and time. I don’t think they would be on drugs for very long. What does this all mean? No customers for the dealers means no money, no money, no crime. No crime, no need for the DEA, or other law enforcement departments. Just regular police and maybe the vice department. No need for so many lawyers. No need for all those un-necessary government agencies. But this will never happen because the government will loose billions from the “drug war”. A war that hasn’t been won and a war which will never end because there is too much STUPIDITY in our government.