Forty million pounds of cocaine will never reach the streets after a combined Anglo-French-American bust in the Caribbean which snared a drug-running team…
Support ship RFA Mounts Bay and a US Coastguard team pounced on two speedboats as they raced through open seas south of the US Virgin Islands. They seized 1.4 tonnes of illegal narcotics – which turned out to be cocaine, worth more than £35m. The traffickers managed to ditch 150kg of drugs in the Caribbean before they were intercepted – ensuring another £3.75m of cocaine won’t be sold.
