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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The suspect eventually turned the vessel back to port, where he was met by the Westport police and promptly taken into custody. Authorities found $4000 in cash and a large quantity of individually weighed and packaged marijuana in his possession.

The fuck?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How high do you have to be to think that dealing ten bags to dolphins is the move?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Maybe he got the drugs while offshore from a supply ship and was planning to smuggle it back onshore for distribution. That’s been a successful smuggling technique for centuries.

EDIT: reading the article he was telling the crew they needed to go meet a Chinese mothership, so probably something along those lines. Either he was taking it out to supply a vessel but they never reached it, or they made the pickup but the crew is not talking because of threats but they were allowed to turn the hijacker in because the mothership organization doesn’t want to deal with someone that stupid. He probably lied about having access to a boat and this was his dumb plan to meet up.