Cocaine with a street value of more than £40 million has been seized by a Royal Navy warship in the Caribbean Sea.
The Royal Navy said it is the sixth drug bust made by HMS Trent in 2024, and it has seized close to seven tons of drugs worth £551.5 million from traffickers.
HMS Trent’s commanding officer Commander Tim Langford described the latest bust on August 8 as “another significant haul”.
HMS Trent was pressed into action in this latest operation after being alerted to a speedboat that was suspected to be smuggling cocaine around 120 nautical miles south of the Dominican Republic.
With a US maritime patrol aircraft flying overhead, the Portsmouth-based warship closed in and dispatched the Royal Marines and US Coast Guard on board to intercept the vessel.
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