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 'seized 22 bales of pure cocaine'
Sailors aboard HMS Lancaster seized 22 bales of pure cocaine from a speedboat near Puerto Rico, the Ministry of Defence has said.
The drugs, which have an estimated street value of £100 million, were handed over to the Coast Guard Cutter Sapelo and then the authorities in Puerto Rico.
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