Meet the Worst Cocaine Smugglers of All Time

[Queersetti]

If Isabelle Lagace and Melina Roberge were trying to avoid jail – possibly for life – by hiding huge bags of cocaine in nondescript luggage, they failed. But if they wanted numerous, public bikini shots and selfies documenting their wild ride on a two-month luxury cruise to be spread across the international news media, they nailed it. Lucky for us, the duo provided both an example of why not to smuggle absurd amounts of narcotics across international borders and a taste of what a $11,000-plus cruise looks like, documenting stops in Bermuda, Chile, Ecuador and New York City's Times Square.

Authorities have yet to reveal how or when they knew Lagace, 28, and Roberge, 22, were carrying 35 kilos of cocaine on a cruise liner headed from England to Australia. But when the MS Sea Princess made its final dock in Sydney, the two were quickly arrested along with another man, 63-year-old André Tamine, who himself was holding 60 kilos. It's unclear what connection the two women have with Tamine, but together the authorities called the 95-kilo bust Australia's biggest-ever seizure of drugs coming through a passenger boat or airport.

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Bikini pics are linked from the article, boys.

 

[pointless]

what an adorable puppy.

 

[Saint Peter]

Lady Gaga is looking quite energetic.

 

[Stewart_Pidd]

looks like Keith Richards will have to skip Monday bro!

Stew

 

[Queersetti]

She doesn't like Mondays.

In prison, every day is Monday.

 

[Queersetti]

In prison, every day is Monday.

Sukit_beatch told me that.

 

[Sean]

She doesn't like Mondays.

Yo, In prison, every day is Monday.

FYP, YW.

 

[Queersetti]

FYP, YW.

Yo, thank you.

 

[Queersetti]

looks like Keith Richards will have to skip Monday bro!

Stew

Yo, wrong username, bro!

 

[Emerson40]

They tried the ol' 'hidden in plain sight' trick, a failed smuggler's ploy since forever.

 

[Super-Surprise]

Meh, they'll be out in 2-3 years.

 

[Saint Peter]

3 years for commercial trafficking?

Sounds a little light.

 

[Saint Peter]

Especially when the porter had to use a forktruck to lift the bags off the ship.

 

[Queersetti]

Especially when the porter had to use a forktruck to lift the bags off the ship.

There hasn't been $23 million worth of cocaine in one place since Studio 54 closed.

 

[BotanyBoy]

3 years for commercial trafficking?

Sounds a little light.

Cute girls practically never get destroyed in criminal courts like men do.

The system is sexist.

 

[Disgustipated]

There hasn't been $23 million worth of polyester in one place since Studio 54 closed.

FYPYW

 

[Saint Peter]

Cute girls practically never get destroyed in criminal courts like men do.

The system is sexist.

The system is many things. Those two getting out in three years? I doubt that. The gavel will shake the courtroom.

 

[pointless]

Especially when the porter had to use a forktruck to lift the bags off the ship.

it's not even 80 lbs. you need to work out more.

 

[Queersetti]

it's not even 80 lbs. you need to work out more.

The article claimed it was 200 pounds, but I believe that included both busts.

 

[BotanyBoy]

The system is many things. Those two getting out in three years? I doubt that. The gavel will shake the courtroom.

It is Australia so I don't really know.

If it's similar to the US in their sexism they will be out in 5, max.

 

[neci]

bad babies! throw the book at them!

 

[bronzeage]

Interstate 10 runs through the middle of my neighborhood and it's said that anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of the cocaine traffic passes on this stretch of road.

I drive that road nearly every day and I'm one among thousands of cars. About once a month, someone is stopped for a routine traffic violation and the officer finds a large amount of cocaine. I always wonder how, from the very many cars that change lanes without using their turn signal, they manage to stop the one with the truck load of coke.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Interstate 10 runs through the middle of my neighborhood and it's said that anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of the cocaine traffic passes on this stretch of road.

I drive that road nearly every day and I'm one among thousands of cars. About once a month, someone is stopped for a routine traffic violation and the officer finds a large amount of cocaine. I always wonder how, from the very many cars that change lanes without using their turn signal, they manage to stop the one with the truck load of coke.

Because it's not the one.....it's one of many.

IDK about coke, but I do know about trafficking and it's just a numbers game. Yea you lose loads but the other hundreds or thousands of whatever scam you got going (trucks/boats/containers/planes etc.) that made it cover that.

 

[phrodeau]

The article claimed it was 200 pounds, but I believe that included both busts.

They didn't look that heavy in the pictures. Reinforced bikinis?

 

[Conager]

Interstate 10 runs through the middle of my neighborhood and it's said that anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of the cocaine traffic passes on this stretch of road.

I drive that road nearly every day and I'm one among thousands of cars. About once a month, someone is stopped for a routine traffic violation and the officer finds a large amount of cocaine. I always wonder how, from the very many cars that change lanes without using their turn signal, they manage to stop the one with the truck load of coke.

I was living off of Highway 191 which is also known as the Old West Highway. It predates I-10 as it crosses Arizona once I 10 was created 191 was more or less abandoned except for a farm town / University town and of course all the trucks coming and going from mine.

I was pulled over on average 10 times per year in the seven years I made that trip a couple of times a month. Several cops including a very suspicious looking guy in a probably phoney BLM vehicle that pulled me over for going 57 in a 55 admitted that they were on the lookout for Smugglers avoiding I-10.

One of my friends remarked one time the reason you get pulled over so often is every single one of your vehicles just screams felony stop. I went up there with a dozen vehicles. All of them tend to look either fast, disposable or worse, both.

The only one that never got pulled over was my F-150 extended cab with a camper shell on it perfect for snuggling.