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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 nation's 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 with 649kg of cocaine hidden in a compartment beneath the deck. Hickson said the vessel most likely d...

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 department /AFP/Getty Images AgenceFrance-Presse Wed 16 Dec 2020 12.37 EST Last modified on Wed 16 Dec 2020 1...

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 cocaine found near multiple islands over the past two decades. The drug haul has an estimated street...