Officers recently confiscated nearly 6.5 tons of cocaine from a semi-submersible vessel, or so-called "narco sub," intercepted off the Azores while bound for the Iberian peninsula, Portugal's ...

Officers recently confiscated nearly 6.5 tons of cocaine from a semi-submersible vessel, or so-called "narco sub," intercepted off the Azores while bound for the Iberian peninsula, Portugal's ...

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The narco sub reportedly departed from the mouth of the Amazon River ... which also involved Spain’s Civil Guard, Portugal’s Judicial Police, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), MAOC-N, and ...

Officers have confiscated nearly 6.5 tonnes of cocaine from a semi-submersible submarine intercepted off the Azores while bound for the Iberian peninsula, Portugal's judicial police said on Tuesday.

Many so-called "narco-submarines" cannot fully dive like a true submarine, but some are able to dip completely underwater. Most of the cocaine smuggled into Portugal comes across the sea from ...

Narco-submarines typically travel a couple of thousand ... It reportedly stopped off in Portugal en-route, which is where law enforcement picked up its trail. This is broadly consistent with ...

The craft - dubbed the “narco-submarine” in the press - was reportedly ... Police forces from the UK, Portugal, the US and Brazil were also involved. The crew had apparently been travelling ...

One type of submarine that you may not have considered, though, is the narco submarine. These subs have a connection to narcotics, being used in the illicit trade around the world. Often ...

The six-man crew — all Colombians between the ages of 39 and 68 — are the latest to be indicted for using what are often called narco-submarines. The handcrafted vessels are usually not true ...