U.S. CBP aircraft aids seizure of huge cocaine haul in Caribbean
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection P-3 Tracker aircraft, based in Jacksonville, Fla., led a French naval ship to intercept a fishing vessel in the eastern Caribbean Sea and seize 3.1 metric tons of cocaine.
After tracking the Venezuelan-flag 'Don Matilde,' a 100-foot-long private fishing boat, crewmen on the CBP plane videotaped the crew of the boat dumping overboard bales of what was later determined to be cocaine.
Subsequently, a boarding party from a French naval ship directed by the P-3 Tracker to the 'Don Matilde' recovered $62.5 million worth of cocaine that remained on the fishing boat. French officials have detained nine crewmen from the boat, all of them Venezuelans.
U.S. CBP aircraft aids seizure of huge cocaine haul in Caribbean
