Police seized last Wednesday in Martinique on the cargo of a boat carrying 650 kg of cocaine and arrested seven people in the act, the head of Ofast in the Caribbean told AFP on Monday (September 6th).
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On the basis of information, the investigators followed the arrival on the Vauclin beach of a fishing boat equipped with powerful engines until it unloaded its cargo there, said the divisional commissioner Alexis Huguet, head of the Ofast branch (office in charge of combating drug trafficking) in the Caribbean.
A van came to collect the goods.
In total, 650 kg of cocaine distributed in several bales.
Once the van hit the road, the police intervened in the act and arrested its three occupants, while their colleagues stopped those of the boat, still on the beach.
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In total, seven people, six Martinicans and a Venezuelan, were arrested and referred Sunday to the judicial court of Fort-de-France. According to the first elements of the investigation, the boat came from Venezuela. The cargo, whose analysis (to determine the degree of purity, in particular) was in progress, would represent, according to Commissioner Huguet, several thousand euros for resale.