CARIBBEAN-DRUGS - Five hundred kilogrammes of cocaine seized in Caribbean Sea

Sep 06, 2013

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, CMC – Honduras Minister of Defence, Marlon Pascua, says the Honduran Navy has seized at least 500 kilogrammes of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea.
On Wednesday, he said two people have been arrested on suspicion of shipping the drug by boat.
The Defence Minister told reporters that the shipment was headed to Honduras’ northern Bay Islands department for later transshipment to the United States.The two unidentified suspects were from the department of Islas de la Bahia, along Honduras’ Caribbean coast.

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