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Coast Guard Seizes 2 Cocaine-Laden Ships
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1390/a11.html
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Pubdate: Mon, 27 Sep 2004
Source: Tampa Tribune (FL)
Copyright: 2004, The Tribune Co.
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Author: Elaine Silvestrini of the Tribune
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(Cocaine)
COAST GUARD SEIZES 2 COCAINE-LADEN SHIPS
TAMPA - Tampa-based investigators of ``Operation Panama Express''
have broken records by reeling in two fishing vessels, each
carrying more than 10 tons of cocaine in the eastern Pacific
Ocean.
Federal authorities plan to hold a news conference in Washington
this afternoon to announce the seizure of an estimated total of 27
tons of cocaine from the ships, the Lina Marie and the San Jose.
The vessels were boarded seven days apart by the U.S. Coast
Guard using a Navy frigate south of the Galapagos Islands about
450 miles off the coast of Ecuador.
The cocaine had an estimated worth of about $360 million,
according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph K. Ruddy.
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