Followed by guards, traffickers throw cocaine bags into Pacific waters

While not more than a week ago, the US Coast Guard blocked a submarine carrying 17690kg of cocaine and 432kg of marijuana at a cost of 453 million pounds, in another operation, it has managed to capture and charge over a ton of cocaine worth about $30m.

Traffickers, who in a motorboat rapidly sailed into the waters of the Pacific Ocean, as they discovered that they were being pursued by border guards, were forced to throw the shipment of drugs into the waters facing San Diego.

In the last six months alone, coastal guards have seized more than 11 tons of drugs.