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Marshall Islands destroy record cocaine haul found on boat washed on remote atoll 17 Dec, 2020 07:51 PM 5 minutes to read Marshall Islands Police Captain Eric Jorban, left, empties a bag of one-kilo packages of cocaine into an incinerator Photo / RNZ Marshall Islands Police Captain Eric Jorban, left, empties a bag of one-kilo packages of cocaine into an incinerator Photo / RNZ RNZ By Giff Johnson, of RNZ Marshall Islands police have destroyed over 635kg of cocaine after the cache of drugs drift...

Ghost ship with $80 million worth of cocaine washes up on shore of Marshall Islands © Provided by National Post A photo on December 15, 2020 shows a box filled with one-kilo A small ship washed up on the shore of the Marshall Islands with no crew on it — but with 649 kilograms of cocaine instead. The 5.4 metre long fiberglass ship was discovered on a beach by Ailuk Atoll on the small island in the Pacific between the Philippines and Hawaii, reported CNN. The ship was discovered last ...

Full article Some 649kg of cocaine was found hidden inside a vessel that had run ashore. Two packets have been sent to the US Drug Enforcement Administration for testing. Police in the Marshall Islands have discovered a record haul of drugs thought to have drifted across the Pacific Ocean from Latin America. About 649kg of cocaine was found hidden inside a vessel that had run ashore. Police said the drugs were incinerated on Tuesday, apart fro...

’Ghost boat’ carrying nearly a ton of cocaine washes ashore on Pacific island David Matthews A small boat washed ashore on the Marshall Islands last week carrying 1,400 pounds of cocaine, leaving investigators stumped. Police on the remote Pacific island nation between the Philippines and Hawaii took possession of the cocaine, which was divided up into 649 1-kilogram bricks and worth about $80 million, after it showed up on a beach at Ailuk Atoll and destroyed it. Police cal...

Record cocaine haul found on ‘ghost boat’ in Marshall Islands Al Jazeera English © Police said the drugs, which were in 1kg packages, were incinerated on Tuesday [Marshall Islands Pol... Police said the drugs, which were in 1kg packages, were incinerated on Tuesday [Marshall Islands Police Departments] Marshall Islands police have found the Pacific nation’s largest-ever haul of cocaine in an abandoned boat that washed up on a remote atoll after drifting on the high seas...

1 Marshall Islands Police Captain Eric Jorban, (left), empties one-kilo packages of cocaine into an incinerator in Majuro in the Marshall Islands. MAJURO, Marshall Islands: Marshall Islands police have found the Pacific nations largest-ever haul of cocaine in an abandoned boat that washed up on a remote atoll after drifting on the high seas, potentially for years. Attorney General Richard Hickson said the 5.5-metre fibreglass vessel was found at Ailuk atoll last week wi...

Ghost boat laden with cocaine washes up in the Marshall Islands Abandoned vessel containing 649kg of drug washes up on a remote Pacific atoll after potentially years at sea The boat washed up on Ailuk atoll, a remote atoll with about 400 people, in the Marshall Islands last week. Photograph: Marshall Islands police department /AFP/Getty Images The boat washed up on Ailuk atoll, a remote atoll with about 400 people, in the Marshall Islands last week. Photograph: Marshall Islands police departmen...

Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal / RNZ Pacific correspondent Marshall Islands police have destroyed over 635 kilogrammes of cocaine after the cache of drugs drifted into a remote atoll. Marshall Islands Police Captain Eric Jorban, left, empties a bag of one-kilo packages of cocaine into an incinerator Photo: RNZ Pacific / Giff Johnson Police said the discovery last week was the largest volume of cocaine to ever wash into the Marshall Islands, which has seen hundreds of kilos of ...