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Article: US Coast Guard, British Royal Navy seize cocaine worth 55-mn dollars.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- July 23, 2009
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Byline: ANI
London, July 23 (ANI): The US Coast Guard and British Royal Navy in a joint operation seized 55 million dollars worth of cocaine from a speedboat off the coast of South America.
A Coast Guard law enforcement boarding team from Miami, aboard the Royal Navy Frigate HMS Iron Duke, found the drugs on a go-fast vessel off the coast of Venezuela.
In a nighttime operation, HMS Iron Duke, working with the US Coastguard, boarded the drug traffickers' vessel and seized the cocaine-weighing three-quarters of a tonne.
The seizure was made while the Portsmouth-based Type 23 frigate was carrying out patrols in the Caribbean as part of a ...