CARIBBEAN-DRUGS-INTERPOL led operation seizes drugs in Caribbean

LYON, France, CMC – The world’s largest international police organization, known as INTERPOL, says nearly 30 tonnes of cocaine, heroin and marijuana with an estimated value of US$ 822 million have been seized in an operation targeting the maritime trafficking of drugs and illicit firearms by organized crime groups across Central America and the Caribbean.

On Wednesday, INTERPOL said Operation Lionfish, coordinated by its Regional Bureau for Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador, with support from the Drugs and Criminal Organizations unit at the General Secretariat headquarters here, involved about 34 countries and territories.
It said the operation resulted in 142 arrests, the seizure of 15 vessels, eight tonnes of chemical precursors, 42 guns and abut US$170,000 in cash.