Colombian Police Seize
740Kg of Cocaine
Bogota - Colombian
anti-drug police seized
740 kg of cocaine in the
northern Colombian port
of Cartagena on Sunday,
local news reports said.
The drug was about to be
sent to the Guatemalan
province of Izabal.
Colonel Luis Fernando
Burgos, chief of the
anti-drug police office
of Colombia, said the
drug was mixed with
dolomite quicklime and
had been due to be
exported under the name
of a non-existent
company called Jamaicoop.
No one was detained
during the operation.
The value of the cocaine
was estimated at us$2.2
million dollars, police
said.
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