Drug dealers were using his boats to escape from the US.

Cigarette boat drug smuggling. Coast Guard and Navy ships patrol the Caribbean and capture a lot. The great speed of Cigarette boats also made them a popular choice among cocaine smugglers. Soon the tug boats.

Mumin Sahin and Emin Ozmen were found guilty of smuggling 512m of cocaine Two men who were in charge of a boat carrying cocaine worth 512m have been convicted of an international. With Kramer onboard Laniers smuggling operation moved onto bigger stakes. Classic Go-Fast Boat Going back to the 1980s drug smugglers have used cigarette boats to ferry drugs in the Caribbean.

It started with faster and bigger boats then a 65-foot wooden trawler then a fleet of tug boats. Crafty cartels make billions of dollars sending small swift boats loaded with narcotics from Latin America to the United States. Customs Serviceto Kramer and his father in 1985.

But there are also a handful of enclosed vessels with pipes and snorkels. They have a closed bow. Coast Guards and DEA agents.

Shores but due to increased law. One of those characters was a race-boat driver and drug smuggler named Ben Kramer. On February 3 1987 Aronow was murdered in his car at the end of 188th Street in Miami where his boat companies operated.

Drug cartels in Central American have developed a sleek new smuggling vehicle that is practically impossible for law enforcement to track by radar crime experts say. Most cigarette boats are 30 to 50 feet 9 to 15 meters long and about 8 feet 2 meters long. Aronow had sold USA Racing Teama company that built high-speed catamarans for the US.