United States drug control seized almost ton of cocaine on the way to New York. Reports about it The Independent.
According to the publication, about 920 kilograms of prohibited substances were confiscated – two parties of 460 kilograms. During the investigation, the agency employees accused Jorge Apronte-Gusman, Nelson Agremont-Minai and Carlos Maisonette-Lopez in a plot for illicit drug trafficking.
The seized party of cocaine has become the largest in New York state over the past ten years. The representative of the local drug control Ray Dovanov stressed that this seizure proves a change in the illicit drug trafficking situation in New York: the volume of cocaine seizures over the past year has grown by more than 150 percent.
October 6 reported that the Federal Police of Brazil seized about five tons of cocaine in containers in the port of the Central Rio de Janeiro district. Drugs were hidden inside the boxes for powder soap. The vessel on which the prohibited substance was discovered should be in Spain through Mozambique.