The Armed Forces of the Antilles (FAA) conducted a “record confiscation” Of 3.5 tons of cocaine on a Venezuelan fishing vessel traveling southeast of the island of Barbados, they announced on Friday the 1stum December in a press release.
The patrolman The fighter The ship was intercepted on November 28 and the crew members and cargo were turned over to Venezuelan authorities, the FAA said. According to the same source, the drugs were distributed in 119 bundles.
The interception took place “Thanks to the first Colombian intelligence information on the suspicion of a ship involved in drug trafficking”, the head of the FAA operations department told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The operation took place at night, after an initial phase of aerial reconnaissance and localization.
“Given the location where we seized them, they were drugs heading to Europe, possibly being transferred to a ship that could cross the Atlantic.”, we underlined from the same source. Barbados in the Southern Antilles is the easternmost island in the region.
The operation, carried out by the National Navy with the support of Customs and the State Department, was carried out in coordination with American allies and Colombian partners of the FAA, the latter said. This seventh FAA seizure of the year sums up their record “More than 10 tons of narcotics removed from distribution networks” in 2023, they indicate in the press release.
