Two-year probe leads to 4.5 tonne cocaine haul in Spain

Police seized 4.5 tonnes of cocaine aboard a fishing boat and arrested 11 people in the culmination of a two-year probe involving law enforcement officials from Britain and Portugal, Spanish officials said today.

The drugs were confiscated on Friday from an unnamed vessel on the high seas, police said, without specifying the location. The cocaine had an estimated street value of €151.4m. The detainees are of Spanish, Colombian and British nationality, they said.