Ja­maica’s po­lice are re­port­ing the largest co­caine bust in the coun­try’s his­to­ry, fol­low­ing the seizure of over 5,500 kilo­grammes of co­caine with a street val­ue of US$76 mil­lion, ear­li­er this week.

Five men—in­clud­ing a Colom­bian na­tion­al, an ac­coun­tant, as well as a de­por­tee—are among those in cus­tody in con­nec­tion with the seizure.

The ar­rests and seizure were made dur­ing an an­ti-nar­cotics op­er­a­tion by a team of po­lice of­fi­cers from the Firearms and Nar­cotics In­ves­ti­ga­tion Di­vi­sion (FNID) in the Cor­po­rate Area.

It is re­port­ed that FNID of­fi­cers, with sup­port from the Counter-Ter­ror­ism and Or­gan­ised Crime In­ves­ti­ga­tion Branch, raid­ed a premis­es, re­sult­ing in the ar­rest of the men and the seizure of a num­ber of knit­ted bags con­tain­ing co­caine.

Su­per­in­ten­dent Sam Blake, head of the Firearms and Nar­cotics In­ves­ti­ga­tion Di­vi­sion, said the op­er­a­tion has put a dent in­to a drug traf­fick­ing net­work. —KINGSTON, Ja­maica (CMC)