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Tuesday 6/8/2019 - Federal authorities seized about 16½ tons of cocaine Tuesday from a large ship at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, prosecutors said.
Members
of the ship's crew were arrested and federally charged. The
investigation is ongoing, said a tweet form US Attorney's Office for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania. It's the largest seizure in the district's history, the office said.
The drugs were found inside eight containers on a cargo ship. The US Attorney's Office estimates the street value at more than $1 billion.
The
seizure comes on the heels of several major busts at the Port of
Philadelphia, located about 8 miles up the Delaware River from the
Packer Marine Terminal.
Among
them were seizures of 450 kilograms of cocaine in May, 538 kilos of
cocaine in March and 50 kilos of the powerful opioid, fentanyl, in July,
WPVI reported.
The Port of Philadelphia said the situation was still developing and that it had no comment.
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