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| Submarine carrying 6.5 tons of cocaine worth £530million is seized with the help of the UK police |
| 2025-04-01 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A submarine carrying 6.5 tons of cocaine has been captured in one of the biggest drug busts of its kind. The vessel had been heading towards Europe from Brazil when it was intercepted by Portuguese police in an operation involving the British Crime Agency earlier this week. The smugglers were busted during their attempted crossing of the Atlantic, with police finding £530million of cocaine onboard. Five alleged members of a criminal organisation were travelling aboard the vessel - three Brazilian men, one Colombian and a Spaniard. All five crew members were arrested and transferred to the Portuguese island of Sao Miguel. The arrests mark the first time a drug-smuggling semi-submersible has been intercepted in the open sea, Spanish authorities claimed. Maybe the first by them, but in the Pacific there's been several. They usually open the hatches and sink the shipment before capture The vessel is thought to be one of the largest ever built with the purpose of transporting drugs between continents. 'The traffickers planned to collect the drugs near the coast using high-speed vessels and smuggle them ashore,' a statement by Spain's Guardia Civil read. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 Maybe the south border is getting a little tough. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-01 00:05 |