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The police of the Marshall Islands made the largest cocaine seizure in its history in a ship that ran aground on an atoll with no one aboard after having been adrift for a year or two.
Attorney General Richard Hickson said Wednesday that the 5.5 meters was discovered last week in the Ailuk atoll, in this Pacific archipelago.
A total of 649 kilos of cocaine were hidden in a compartment under the deck.
According to the prosecutor, the ship probably came from Central or South America. “It may have been adrift for a year or two,” he said.
Police said the drugs, which were in one-kilo packages marked with the letters “KW,” were burned on Tuesday, except for two packages that will be sent to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for analysis.
It is relatively common for debris from the other side of the Pacific to reach the Marshall Islands. Drug shipments have often been found on the coast, particularly at Ailuk. But last week’s discovery is very important.
The ship may have been abandoned by his sailors due to the risk of being arrested, or maybe they died a storm.
In January 2014, a Salvadoran fisherman, José Alvarenga, arrived in the Marshall Islands more than 13 months after he and another fisherman, who died, set sail for the west coast of Mexico and your boat will be adrift after suffering engine damage.
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