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Cocaine Boats

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The Guy-Ann's Seizures

Customs officials spent days weighing the drugs, counting the bricks and logging it all into evidence. Martella then made the unusual decision to offload and physically inspect every one of the 4,000 containers on the ship. In total, the hall consisted of more than 15,000 bricks of cocaine, weighing nearly 20 tons. The leader of the onboard scheme had been in charge of the crew's schedule, allowing the co-conspirators to be on duty at the same time.

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