I lived with this guy who tells me one evening that he’d gladly kill someone if he was paid enough. The next day after he left for work I packed my truck and I was gone. In less than a year he killed a guy trying to collect a debt for a bunch of weed that had been fronted. In front of multiple witnesses. None lied to the police and Rhett went to jail. Because the guy was a Mexican Rhett made parole in just a couple of years.
I didn’t keep up with him until my sister informed me he was in the news. Murder. Multiple counts. Him and some other cretin I didn’t know. Rhett had shot an informant in the head, buried him but barely. Rhett only had one leg so he wasn’t digging. The guy clawed his way out and made it to a road and you can guess the rest.
Point of story - if these two cats would murder multiple people to keep this ring going think how easy it would be to hire enough freelancers and and steal a boat to carry this out? In broad daylight? Magnetic mines are dropped on the seabed in shallow water. The passing ship attracts it.
True military carrying this out would have done it at night and would have been far more effective. This is a Wag the Dog moment.