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Article: Iron Duke seizes cocaine.(VIEWS, NEWS AND REVIEWS)
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- Guns Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Cocaine with an estimated street value of 40 million [pounds sterling] has been seized by Royal Navy warship HMS iron Duke during a major drug bust operation in the North Atlantic.
Working with the US Coast Guard, on Saturday evening 28 June 2008 Iron Duke intercepted an ocean-going speedboat north-east of Barbados in a location which suggested the boat had been en route to Europe or West Africa.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency, in association with the British-led Maritime Analysis and Operation Centre in Lisbon, was involved in the coordination of the successful interdiction together with other law enforcement ...