yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Canada's Largest Drug Bust | Narco Wars: The Mob


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

You have to be pretty top notch in your profession just to survive it all. You get heavy turbulence; you got to slow the aircraft down because you could have structural failure, like losing a wing. Wouldn't be much fun! A North Atlantic storm in November, it's a pretty impressive event to put it mildly.

My name is John Raymond Bourange. I'm what you would call a mercenary pilot. I fly for hire to he who pays the most. I had 4,343 kilos of cocaine, and I was flying from Colombia directly to Canada. Normally the flight would be about nine hours, give or take, but I ran into the storm for about 45 minutes or an hour before I broke out. And lo and behold, there were the F-18s. Then they were off to my beer, and the other guy came up close beside us, flying around me.

They can signal to go down, and I just waved to them. They can't shoot at you, but they were running out of gas. We were just timing and saying, "Okay, how long is it going to be before they're going to run out?" It was interesting; he gave us a nice little show. I went down to treetop level and flew the rest of the way. Treetop level below radar, so nobody knew where the airplane was.

The authorities put out an alert to all the airports: "There's a big white conveyor somewhere in Canada. If anybody sees it, report it." I should have arrived around six o'clock in the morning, but I arrived at quarter to nine instead.

I was standing out on the runway waiting for the crew hired to go and do the pickup. We looked all over the place, couldn't figure out where the hell these guys were. Turns out they'd been there since three in the morning. At around 7:30, they decided I wasn't coming, and they left. So anyway, I started walking, and the truck went by. I hitched a ride, and he gave me a lift all the way down to the lumber camp.

That's where I was when the RCMP arrived by helicopter because the police had blocked off all the roads. So they asked, "What's in the airplane?" I said, "Cocaine." He says, "How much?" I says, "A lot." It's being touted as the biggest drug bust in Canadian history and probably the most dramatic.

The seizure of 4,300 kilos of cocaine really reverberated through the DEA. There's a staggering amount of cocaine, coupled with the fact that it was flown directly from the north coast of Colombia into Canada. I would have made around 45 million; it's a pretty good payday for one day's work. That's not bad.

I was arrested, pled guilty, and got 23 years. That was it. I became famous, but I take things with a grain of salt. It was, and I believe it still is, the biggest bust ever in Canada.

More Articles

View All
Is 2023 a Bull Market, or Stock Market Bubble?
This week, the S&P 500 hit 4,600 points, which is now only a few percentage points away from its all-time high back in January 2022. Yes, with all the doom and gloom and discussions of recessions, banking crises, high interest rates, low savings rates…
15 Ways to Make $10,000 Per Month as a Student
As a student, you typically got no time, no capital, and no experience, right? So how do we know it’s possible for you to make $110,000 a month despite all of these obstacles? Well, because we’ve done it, and we’ve seen thousands of other people do it too…
Checking bus fares with if statements | Intro to CS - Python | Khan Academy
Let’s design a program using Boolean expressions and if statements. The public transit system wants to build an app that determines a passenger’s bus fare. The standard bus fare is $4.25; however, they offer discounts for certain age groups. Kids under fi…
Walking Alone in the Wilderness: A Story of Survival (Part 2) | Nat Geo Live
Why I’m here today, talking to you, here, in this amazing special place? It’s because of a slug story. Basic slug story, you know how those stories go? You know, I couldn’t have my pocket money when I was a kid. Grow up in Switzerland. Picture this. This …
2005 Entrepreneurship Conference - Taking on the Challenge: Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon
I want to talk a little bit about how we think about innovation at Amazon.com and, uh, give you a couple of examples from the world. This is the whiffle ball and the guy, his name is David Nelson Malany, and in 1953 he took a Cody perfume package and, ou…
Khanmigo: Using Class Snapshot
Kanigo is an AI teaching assistant built by Khan Academy and designed to help all students learn. Conmigo has a fun and eccentric personality and is always willing and able to be your creative co-pilot. Conveigo is not just for students; teachers can use …