Navy seizes £100m of cocaine
The crew of a Royal Navy warship has seized a 680kg stash of cocaine with an estimated street value of £100 million after sailors boarded a speedboat near Puerto Rico.
Royal Navy mobilised pursuit boat and helicopter
The Royal Navy mobilised a Lynx helicopter and high-speed pursuit boat in order to intercept the speedboat suspected of smuggling drugs.
The Ministry of Defence said that the three people on board initially tried to dispose of the evidence by throwing the drugs overboard, but this was recovered by divers.
The suspected drugs smugglers ultimately cooperated with the Royal Navy
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