Joint action by RFA, Royal Navy and US Coast Guard nets huge haul of cocaine from the sea

It was a joint action by Royal Fleet Auxilliary ship, Royal Navy and US Coast Guard that helped to intercept a huge load of cocaine worth nearly £40m from a suspicious speedboat after a dramatic six-hour chase in the Caribbean.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 11 November 2016.

The 31,500-tonne RFA Wave Knight entered the scene after a patrol plane spotted a suspicious speedboat in the sea between Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Wave Knight launched her Lynx helicopter and, sitting in the back of the helicopter was a sniper from the Royal Marines who fired warning shots. Once these were ignored, he fired shots at the speedboat's engines to bring it to a halt.
Thereafter, US Coast Guard boarded and seized 350kg of cocaine which would have been worth about £14m if they had reached the UK.
Of course, before officials had reached the speedboat, the boat's crew had dumped another nearly 650kg of cocaine worth around £26m into the sea.
Subsequently, the five crew from the speedboat were taken with the drugs onto the US Coast Guard cutter and handed over to authorities in Miami Beach.


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