More than a tonne of cocaine with a street value of $77million has been seized in New York before it was placed on shipping freights to Rotterdam and London in one of the largest international drug busts in 25 years.
The drugs were seized at Port New York/Newark on February 28 after British intelligence officers from the National Crime Agency alerted US officials.
It had come from an as yet unidentified country in South America and was due to be transported first to Rotterdam in the Netherlands before reaching London, its final destination.
It remains unclear who was behind the drugs and whether this is a new route for criminal enterprises but government agencies on both sides of the Atlantic celebrated the bust as one of the largest in decades.
It is common for drugs to be shipped to Europe from South America via the Caribbean, where there are less stringent checks on shipping containers and a variety of ports and shipping types.
US Customs and Border Protection says 3,200 pounds of cocaine in 60 packages were seized at Port New York/Newark on February 28. The drugs are shown
The estimated street value of the drugs is $77 million. Authorities are shown handling the drugs
The drugs were packaged into 60 individual parcels. They had a combined weight of 3,200lbs (roughly 1400 kilograms) which is 1.6 tonnes.
It is unclear if the full container of all 60 packages was due to reach London or if there were to be drop-offs along the way.
A Customs and Border Patrol spokesman refused to answer specific questions about the drugs, their origins or their route when approached by DailyMail.com on Monday.
They said only that was an 'ongoing investigation' and that the bust was the result of 'shared law enforcement information'.
Both the NCA and the CBP touted is as a major success in press releases, however.
'Cocaine, New York’s nemesis of the 90’s, is back, indicating traffickers push to build an emerging customer base of users mixing cocaine with fentanyl.
'This record breaking seizure draws attention to this new threat and shows law enforcement’s collaborative efforts in seizing illicit drugs before it gets to the streets and into users’ hands,' DEA Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan said.
This marks the biggest cocaine seizure at the ports since 1994. The drugs, which have been turned over to federal Homeland Security officials for investigation, are shown
The container was recovered from a ship that originated in South America according to a Customs spokesperson. The container in which the cocaine was found is shown at left
Dave Hucker, regional head of operations for the NCA, said: 'This is a significant international seizure made possible by our partnerships with law enforcement in the US, and taking this amount of cocaine out of circulation will be a massive hit for the organised crime group involved.
'While this seizure was made on the other side of the Atlantic there is no doubt in my mind that a proportion of these drugs would have ended up on the streets of the UK.
'We know there are direct links between drug distribution and street violence, intimidation and exploitation in UK towns and cities.
'These kind of seizures demonstrate the role the NCA plays in preventing that.'
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Main photo article More than a tonne of cocaine with a street value of $77million has been seized in New York before it was placed on shipping freights to Rotterdam and London in one of the largest international drug busts in 25 years.
The drugs were seized at Port New York/Newark on February 28 after British ...
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