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Portuguese police seize over a ton of cocaine

Xinhua, May 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

Portuguese police seized over a ton of cocaine and detained five men in the Acores archipelago, Portuguese Lusa News Agency reported on Friday.

The suspects were all foreign and were transporting the drug in a sailing ship in the island of Faial on Thursday, according to Lusa.

Police also told Lusa that it was the "biggest cocaine operation" to have ever taken place in the Acores and the street value of the cocaine is worth around 300 million euros (about 330 million U.S. dollars).

The operation was undertaken by the Department of Criminal Investigation of Ponta Delgada, and falls within "a vast framework of identification, combat and dismantling of organized criminal networks" which transport the drug to Europe.

The suspects are aged between 29 and 54 and will be interrogated on Friday night at court, Lusa reports. Endit