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Spain seizes record amount of cocaine in Atlantic Ocean, authorities say
6 minutes agoElla KiplingGetty ImagesThe cocaine was found by Spain's Civil Guard (file image)Spanish police have seized what is thought to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the Atlantic Ocean.Between 30,000 to 45,000kg (33 to 50 tonnes) were found when the Civil Guard intercepted a freighter in international waters, the body's main union, the AUGC, announced. It called the move a "historic blow to drug trafficking". The vessel was intercepted off Spain's Canary Islands on Friday and around 20 people were arrested, the AUGC told the AFP news agency. It had travelled from Sierra Leona and was on its way to Libya. The Civil Guard has declined to give details of the investigation for legal reasons.Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters in Madrid that the seizure was "one of the biggest, not only nationally but internationally".The Civil Guard shared a photograph on X showing the drugs stuffed into the hold of the intercepted vessel. "Today history is being written in the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard," it wrote."Intercepted in international waters the largest known seizure: between 30,000 and 45,000 kg of cocaine on board a freighter."While the boat was headed to Libya, AFP reported
Record amount of cocaine seized from ship in Atlantic Ocean by Spanish police, union says
May 4, 2026 / 9:46 AM EDT / CBS/AFP Add CBS News on Google Spanish police have impounded what is believed to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the Atlantic Ocean, with the seizure potentially reaching 40 tons, a union said on Monday.The Civil Guard intercepted the vessel in international waters off Spain's Canary Islands on Friday, with around 20 people arrested, sources from the force's main AUGC union told the Agence France-Presse.It is estimated that "between 35 and 40 tons of cocaine have been seized" because the hold "was completely stuffed" with bales of the drug, making it "a historic seizure," the sources said.The boat, now being inspected in the Canary Islands, had left Sierra Leone's capital Freetown for Benghazi in Libya.But the pattern of previous such operations suggests it was due to offload the drug onto smaller vessels for distribution in Europe because "the unloading of this volume of cocaine in Libya doesn't make much sense.""Many vessels would be needed, different ports, because such an unloading in a single port would arouse a lot of suspicion. So the operation is probably coordinated through international networks," the AUGC sources said.Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska
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