Two Eu­ro­pean na­tion­als were held and more than $10 mil­lion in pure co­caine seized dur­ing a joint po­lice and Coast Guard ex­er­cise off Cha­cachacare on Mon­day morn­ing. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, short­ly af­ter 9 am, a Coast Guard in­ter­cep­tor on a rou­tine pa­trol off the is­land spot­ted two men of­fload­ing plas­tic pack­ages on­to the shore from a ves­sel docked at a jet­ty. The of­fi­cers con­front­ed the two who sur­ren­dered.

The law­men re­cov­ered 25 one-ki­lo pack­ages of co­caine which they said had a street val­ue of $10.6 mil­lion. In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve the two planned to store the drugs on the is­land un­til arrange­ments were made to ex­port them to Eu­rope. The sus­pects, a 69-year-old Ger­man and a 25-year-old Scots­man, were hand­ed over to de­tec­tives from the Or­gan­ised Crime, Nar­cotics and Firearm Bu­reau (OC­NFB), who are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

The two are ex­pect­ed to be slapped with drug traf­fick­ing charges lat­er this week.