{"id":1703,"date":"2024-12-09T01:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T01:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2024-12-09T01:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T01:03:18","slug":"dominican-police-set-record-with-10-tonne-cocaine-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Police Set Record With 10-Tonne Cocaine Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Dominican Police Set Record With 10-Tonne Cocaine Bust<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, authorities in the Dominican Republic announced the nation&#8217;s largest cocaine bust\u00a0in history. It is the latest in a series of busts that appear to show a revival of Caribbean island routes to the major markets in Europe, where cocaine commands a high price and high\u00a0sales volume.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dominican drug agency DNCD captured 9.8 tonnes of cocaine in a containerized consignment of Guatemalan bananas at Caucedo, a port complex in\u00a0Santo Domingo. The smuggling attempt was detected when a police unit spotted two open containers in the terminal, one empty and the other loaded with bananas. (The haul was initially reported as 9,587 kilo bricks totaling 9.5 tonnes, but a more precise audit determined that the total weight came to 9.8 tonnes.) The previous record was just 2.6 tonnes, a fraction of the recent seizure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J3EA1q5oig8\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate destination for the shipment was in Belgium, home to Europe&#8217;s primary cocaine import gateway and one of the EU&#8217;s fastest growing consumption markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dominican officials have detained 10 people in connection with the bust. The Dominican Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office and the DNCD are still questioning several persons of interest linked to the port, DNCD said Sunday, and more developments in the case are expected soon. There were &#8220;many unknown individuals who tried to transfer the drugs to another container that would be shipped on a vessel to Belgium,&#8221; DNCD spokesman Carlos Denvers explained to BBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dominican police valued the shipment at $250 million. If delivered to Europe, the consignment would be worth about $330 million wholesale; if shipped to the Pacific and delivered to Australia, it would be worth about $1 billion, and twice that amount at retail. Instead, it will be incinerated in an official ceremony at the headquarters of the Dominican Army.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cocaine is fueling a rise in drug-related mortality in England, where cocaine-driven deaths have risen tenfold in a decade. Last year saw drug deaths hit the highest levels on record in the UK, caused in no small part by opiates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/maritime-executive.com\/article\/dominican-police-set-record-with-10-tonne-cocaine-bust\">Go to maritime executive<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Police Set Record With 10-Tonne Cocaine Bust \u00a0 Last week, authorities in the Dominican Republic announced the nation&#8217;s largest cocaine bust\u00a0in history. It is the latest in a series of busts that appear to show a revival of Caribbean island routes to the major markets in Europe, where cocaine commands a high price and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-executive","tag-maritime-executive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}