Marshall Islands destroy record cocaine haul found on boat washed on remote atoll
17 Dec, 2020 07:51 PM
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Marshall Islands Police Captain Eric Jorban, left, empties a bag of one-kilo packages of cocaine into an incinerator Photo / RNZ
Marshall Islands Police Captain Eric Jorban, left, empties a bag of one-kilo packages of cocaine into an incinerator Photo / RNZ
RNZ
By Giff Johnson, of RNZ
Marshall Islands police have destroyed over 635kg of cocaine after the cache of drugs drifted into a remote atoll.
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 value of over US$80 million.
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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 value of over $US80 million. A local resident on Ailuk discovered a boat with 649 one-kilogram bricks of cocaine, said Attorney General Richard Hickson, who praised community members at Ailuk for immediately notifying law enforcement about the drug discovery.