America's Biggest Drug Bust

by Fusion 360 Studios Digital Marketing Specialists

America’s war on drugs has been well documented over the last few decades. Drug related injury has been a huge problem in Utah and in other places across the nation. Most of the time the media outlets only show how the American government is losing the war on illegal drugs, but the huge everyday battles against drugs are being won by the good.

This article will highlight three events where the war on drugs took a turn for the better.

Pablo Escobar, 1984

Many people don’t know, but at the height of his empire Pablo Escobar was supplying 50 percent of America’s cocaine. At the time he was making about a million dollars a day transporting illegal drugs into the United States. He would use helicopters, planes, boats and even submarines in order to transport his drugs into the country.

Because of the dangers of cocaine and the long list of drug injury risks to families in Utah and across the nation, the DEA knew that they had to take him by using tracking devices they were able to seize almost 14 tons of cocaine with a street value of upwards of a billion dollars.

San Francisco Heroin Bust

The city of San Francisco had a huge heroin problem back in the late 80’s. But the city got a massive detox period in 1991 thanks to one of the biggest heroin busts in the nation. The raid was actually caught on film where authorities recovered 1,059 pounds of China white heroin, which had been imported from Thailand. While drugs and drug injury may never go away, the DEA won a huge battle when they confiscated almost 4 billion dollars of Heroin.

Cocaine Bust, 1989

When DEA officials raided a warehouse in an upscale residential neighborhood in California they never expected to find what they found. The cops found cartel kingpin Rafael Munoz Talavera, but they also found 21 tons of cocaine. 21 tons of cocaine is enough to cut five lines for every American in Utah and across the nation, and comes to a street total of 13 billion dollars.

Vince Otiede is a legal writer reporter for Fusion 360, a Content Marketing Agency. Information provided by Robert J Debry.

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