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MSC Peru from Buenaventura, Colombia,Cocaine with an estimated street value of $7 million was seized at the Freeport Container Port

Cocaine with an estimated street value of $7 million was seizedat the Freeport Container Port, marking the second time in less than a month that a big drug bust has been made at that facility.According to police reports late yesterday, acting on information they received, a team of Bahamian and Inter-national Law Enforcement personnel – with the assistance of Container Port agents – conducted a search of a container and discovered the large quantity of cocaine concealed inside a compartment of a machine.The drugs, weighing over 650 pounds was en route to the United States, but has now been flown to New Providence for further investigation.
In September three and a half million dollars in cocaine was seized at the Container port shortly after it arrived on island. Acting on a tip, the Drug Enforce-ment Unit inspected a 40-foot metal container that had just been off-loaded onto the storage bay and found three large black duffle bags with the drugs concealed among a shipment of sugar.The narcotics had just arrived aboard the MSC Peru from Buenaventura, Colombia, with a cargo of containers that were in transit to Port Au Prince, Haiti. The captain and crew of the vessel were interviewed, but no arrests were made. The drugs were flown to the capital aboardan 'Operation Bat' helicopter, where DEU officials investigation, along with International Law Enforcement agencies.
Earlier in March of this year, Grand Bahama Drug Interdiction officers discovered another shipment of illegal drugs at the Freeport Container Port, with a street value of $4.5 million dollars.While searching a 20-foot metal container that had been off-loaded onto the storage bay, officers found five large black nylon duffle bags containing a quantity of suspected cocaine beneath a shipment of palm oil.
That container had arrived aboard the MSC CAROUGE, inbound from Equador and was awaiting transshipment on to Spain. The illegal narcotics, which weighed in at 150 kilograms, also was later transported by an Op-Bat helicopter to the Drug Enforcement Unit headquarters in New Providence.

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