Italian police net record 5-tonne cocaine haul off Sicilian coast
Italian police net record 5-tonne cocaine haul off Sicilian coast
Italian authorities have seized a record 5.3 tonne cocaine haul being transferred between ships off the southern coast of Sicily, police said on Friday.
ROME, July 21 (Reuters) - Italian authorities have seized a record 5.3 tonne cocaine haul being transferred between ships off the southern coast of Sicily, police said on Friday.
The consignment had an estimated value of 850 million euros ($946 million) and five people have been arrested, the Guardia di Finanza said in a statement.
Police had been tracking a ship that sailed from South America and swooped in the early hours of Wednesday, when a surveillance aircraft spotted packages being thrown from its deck into the waters of the Strait of Sicily to be collected by a waiting fishing trawler.
That's a lot of flour. Thankfully the Italians know how to use it.
Forbidden pasta...
The policeman's ball is really going to be wild this year.
Mamma mia! š¤