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But the wall!
Two American special forces soldiers have pled guilty to conspiring to transport $1 million worth of cocaine from Colombia to the United States aboard a military transport plane.
Former Master Sergeant Daniel Gould, 36, and Sergeant 1st Class Henry Royer, 35, who were both Army Green Berets, were caught when they attempted to transport 90 pounds of cocaine via a military aircraft last year, Army Times reported this weekend. According to the report, the soldiers had already successfully trafficked a large quantity of the illicit drug from the South American country in the past, selling it to a distributor in Florida.
Gould and Royer had previously transported 22 pounds of cocaine from the Colombian city of Cali to northwest Florida. They reportedly used a hollowed-out punching bag to conceal the drugs, which were transported to the U.S. In a bid to reinvest the money they made from the sale and make a larger profit, the two men attempted to traffic a larger quantity when they were caught.
Suspicion was aroused at the United States Embassy when packages were X-rayed, revealing cocaine within gutted out punching bags, a release from the Justice Department stated, according to the military newspaper.
The drug-trafficking soldiers now face up to 10 years in prison and will be sentenced on March 12.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-soldiers-guilty-smuggling-cocaine-colombia-1282131?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&fbclid=IwAR3Es8mOLjYNv3tdtXGNZiuMLza28otrX0wr-YNJ2eRpU3DM2lYmwwvCWOs
wishstar
(5,268 posts)The story came out Monday and got almost no coverage on TV as far as I can tell when it seems quite important in discussion of drug trafficking fearmongering by Trump.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)He's sucking the oxygen out of the world with his bullshit temper tantrums.
oldlibdem
(330 posts)war, hero's, and all that. While some Teen-age Kid in Detroit who gets busted for a couple of bags of weed and some crack will face 20-40!
IcyPeas
(21,842 posts)but it should be retweeted to news channels, journalists, activists..... trump and his crew too. like it or not, twitter reaches a lot of people.
https://twitter.com/search?q=newsweek%20u.s.%20soldiers%20plead%20guilty&src=typd&lang=en
trof
(54,256 posts)Mr. Quackers
(443 posts)malaise
(268,724 posts)and not the Southern Border?
Now who controls those poppy fields in Afghanistan?