French customs agents have seized 2.25 tonnes of cocaine, their largest haul ever, from a sailboat in the Caribbean, the government said Saturday.
Authorities made the seizure Wednesday about 200 kilometres (124 miles) off the French island Martinique when they intercepted a boat "falsely flying an American flag".
Three people were arrested aboard the vessel, said the statement from France's finance ministry.
The cocaine haul amounts to about a third of the 6.6 tonnes of the drug seized over the whole of last year by French customs officers.
French customs agents have seized 2.25 tonnes of cocaine, their largest haul ever, from a sailboat in the Caribbean, the government said Saturday.
Authorities made the seizure Wednesday about 200 kilometres (124 miles) off the French island Martinique when they intercepted a boat “falsely flying an American flag”.
Three people were arrested aboard the vessel, said the statement from France’s finance ministry.
The cocaine haul amounts to about a third of the 6.6 tonnes of the drug seized over the whole of last year by French customs officers.
