The skipper of a fishing boat has been convicted of trying to smuggle around a tonne of cocaine into the UK.
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Investigation after £50m cocaine found on Norfolk beaches
National Crime Agency officers have been called into investigate the discovery of around 360 kilos of cocaine that has washed up on two Norfolk beaches.
Australia’s biggest cocaine haul found on yacht
Six men, aged between 32 and 66, have been charged with serious drug importation offences after more than 1.4 tonnes of cocaine was seized from a yacht.
Seized smuggling 57ft yacht Golem sold for £95,000
Golem went for £95,000 in an unreserved Government auction - far less that the £300,000 it sold for a couple of years ago, while Albernina sold for £14,750
Seized yacht and motor cruiser to be auctioned
Seized drug and weapon smuggling boats - the 57ft yacht Golem and the 38ft motor cruiser Albernina - will be auctioned this evening with no reserve.
Cocaine worth £80m seized from converted fishing trawler
An estimated £80million-worth of cocaine have been seized from a British-registered converted fishing trawler off the coast of Falmouth in Cornwall
Guilty verdicts after UK’s biggest ever cocaine seizure
The total weight of the cocaine taken off the MV Hamal was in excess of 3.2 tonnes.
£280,000-worth of cannabis seized from yacht
Two charged after cannabis worth thousands is found on a yacht at Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne
Sailors had £120m cocaine hidden on yacht
Two men who sailed a yacht carrying almost a tonne of cocaine across the Atlantic have been sentenced to more than 34 years in prison.
Yacht intercepted in £12million Caribbean drugs bust
The Royal Navy ship HMS Mersey has played a key part in an operation to seize a vessel suspected of smuggling cocaine off Nicaragua.
Ninth member of Makayabella drugs crime group sentenced
Wayne Bush is the ninth person to be convicted over the Makayabella yacht cocaine-smuggling plot
Briton arrested in connection with $17.5million cocaine seizure from yacht
A Briton is among five people arrested following the seizure of approximately 70 kilograms of cocaine from a yacht in Queensland, Australia.
Cocaine seized from a yacht at Brighton Marina
Cocaine with an estimated value of around £480,000 has been seized from a yacht moored at Brighton Marina.
West Yorkshire man charged over yacht cocaine seizure
The 30-year-old is the fifth person to be charged in the UK in connection with the Makayabella seizure.
300 kilos of cocaine seized from banana boat in Portsmouth
Around 300 kilos of cocaine was discovered concealed within a shipment of bananas
Bound for the UK: 250 kilos of cocaine seized from yacht in the Caribbean
Two Jersey men arrested after cocaine seized from yacht, estimated street value of £30-40million