Nineteen Tons of Coke Seized off Panama
Nineteen Tons of Coke Seized off Panama
Quote: A U.S. Coastguard boarding of a suspicious vessel off the coast of Panama led to a record seizure of cocaine – 19.4 metric tons of the drug hidden in two containers onboard the freighter.
19.4 metric tons? TONS????
Jeez!
I was alerted to this because of my Google news search for “panama city florida” – I think it’s amusing, because this provided the final keyword for the trigger:
Quote:: The 14 crew members, all Panamanian and Mexican nationals, were arrested and are being transferred to Tampa, in the southern U.S. state of Florida, and Panama where they will be prosecuted.
D’oh.