This is quite the one up on the white horse :wow
Colombia cops find submarine big enough for tons of drugs
Web posted at: 12:40 PM EDT (1640 GMT)
FACATATIVA, Colombia (AP) – Police raiding a warehouse in this rural town stumbled upon a most unusual drug trafficking tool: They found a half-built submarine they say would have been able to ship up to 200 tons of cocaine below the ocean’s surface.
The 30-meter-long (100-foot-long) sub was discovered late Wednesday along with documents in Russian in this town just outside Bogota, Colombian National Police director Gen. Ernesto Gilibert told reporters.
“It was between 30 and 40 percent completed and had its engine room ready,” Gilibert said. “The technology is advanced and the workmanship of high quality.”
Colombian traffickers have used smaller, simpler “mini-subs” on at least two occasions in the past, Gilibert said. But even seasoned anti-drug officials said they were stunned by the size and complexity of the vessel discovered here.
“In 32 years I’ve never seen anything like this,” Leo Arreguin, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration director in Colombia, told reporters.
“This is huge,” he said. “We’re talking about being able to load up to 200 tons of cocaine in this submarine.”
Arreguin said documents discovered at the site indicate not only probable Russian ties to the submarine but that two Americans may have also been involved. He did not elaborate on the possible U.S. connection.
No arrests had been made. The warehouse, complete with closed-circuit television monitors, was empty at the time of the raid.
Facatativa is in located roughly 2,250 meters (7,500 feet) above sea level in Colombia’s eastern Andean region. Gilibert said he believed the traffickers planned to truck the submarine down to sea level before loading it with cocaine.
The vessel was probably being built near Bogota for the capital’s access to high-grade construction materials, he said.
They are getting more and more creative, good for them.