Australian police seize record 2.3 tons of cocaine from fishing boat
The New Zealand city of Wellington Authorities claimed Monday that after the suspects' boat broke down off the coast of Queensland, police in Australia confiscated a record 2.3 tons of cocaine and detained 13 people in searches.
According to a statement from federal police, the drugs were worth 760 million Australian dollars ($494 million), which would have equated to up to 11.7 million street sales if they had made it to the 28 million-person nation.
The drugs were brought from an unnamed South American nation, investigators informed reporters in Brisbane.
According to Australian Federal Police Commander Stephen Jay, the arrests on Saturday and Sunday came after a month-long investigation into a tip that the Comancheros motorcycle gang was preparing a multiton smuggling operation.
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