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RPT: Drug Cartels Using Islands to Smuggle into U.S.

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    U.S. Customs making huge cocaine busts

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Puerto Rico saint -- Aykroyd are all US territory so any cargo ship from here to the states.

It's treated just like -- say -- something from Florida to Texas.

For the south American cartels these islands -- also ideally located as a springboard for smuggling.

Could -- team needs.

Wheels up for yet another night of high tech hunting.

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

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

-- -- city mother ship's company.

-- could duplicate the -- -- and and almost as ordinary enormous loss like this so much cocaine it -- a production line of people to -- bag after bag from the van to the table.

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

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

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

We need more resources in this is approved it we're not Hussein we're showing it from 80% of this 800 -- would have been going into the northeast corridor.

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

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

The murder rate here Puerto Rico is now six times higher than in the states big march for peace -- on Sunday right thank you Phil Phil Keating is live on the scene there in -- --

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