1.5 metric tons of cocaine seized in New York
NEW YORK: The US authorities have seized nearly 1.5 metric tons of cocaine with a street value of $77 million. Sixty bundles of the white powder weighing 3,200 pounds were found in a container at the port on February 28, the Drug Enforcement Admin...
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NEW YORK: The US authorities have seized nearly 1.5 metric tons of cocaine with a street value of $77 million.
Sixty bundles of the white powder weighing 3,200 pounds were found in a container at the port on February 28, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said.
No arrests have been made in the case, which remains under investigation.
“Cocaine, New York’s nemesis of the 90s, is back,” DEA special agent in-charge Ray Donovan said.
Donovan said the size of the seizure — the second largest in the port’s history and the largest there since May 1994 — reflected a push by traffickers to build a market for a mixture of cocaine with fentanyl.
The United States, the world’s largest consumer of illegal drugs, is currently experiencing a deadly epidemic of opioid use.
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