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Smugglers reportedly using Puerto Rico as drug pipeline

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    Phil Keating reports from San Juan

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Things smugglers using some of the most popular vacation -- -- -- huge amounts of drugs and weapons and some of these places could be where you are -- nor have bid and in fact.

Phil Keating of streaming live and historians and Juan Puerto Rico down bill.

Puerto Rico say it's obvious they -- are all US territory so any cargo ship from here to the states it's treated just like you're safe -- something from Florida to Texas.

But for the south American cartels these islands are also ideally located as a springboard for smuggling.

I don't team needs.

Wheels up for yet another night of high tech hunting.

For cocaine smugglers look at a -- On these routine missions officer -- -- with US Customs and Border Protection uses infrared cameras radar and Intel.

To -- boats on the water to interdict around the coast of Puerto Rico.

It's in this city -- -- company the program could duplicate the pilot.

And again.

And almost as ordinary enormous loss like this so much cocaine it took a production -- of people halt bag after bag from the -- to the table.

Some -- labeled with the tiger approximately 8000 kilos street value over eighty million dollars.

The US commonwealth is booming as a trans -- point for the south American drug cartels because once the drugs get here.

They're much more easily smuggled into the US mainland as domestic cargo.

We need more resources in this is -- we're not just seen it we're showing it may present this 800 -- would have been going into the northeast corridor.

And mail inspections revealed the drug trade there as well -- that there's spoken.

And locally -- also rising as crime is surging 70% of which is drug related -- right now.

The murder rate here Puerto Rico is now six times higher than in the states big march for peace planned on Sunday.

Right thank you Phil Phil Keating is live on the scene there in -- read.

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