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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 drifted into a remote atoll. Police said the discovery last week was the largest volume of cocaine to eve...

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 week by a local resident, Kolby Alred, on Ailuk, reported Radio New Zealand. The ship was too heavy ...

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 from two packets, which have been sent to the US Drug Enforcement Administration for testing. The drug ...

’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 called it the largest drug seizure in the history of the Marshall Islands. “649 blocks of wrapped coc...

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. Attorney General Richard Hickson said the 5.5-metre (18-foot) fibreglass vessel was found at Ailuk...