Royal Navy Caribbean drugs bust sees cocaine worth over £40m seized

A Royal Navy warship has seized cocaine with a street value of more than £40m in the Caribbean Sea.

The HMS Trent - an offshore patrol vessel - was alerted to a speedboat suspected to be smuggling cocaine and the crew leapt into action.

The speedboat was seen around 120 nautical miles south of the Dominican Republic.

It is HMS Trent's sixth drugs bust this year.

Continue reading at Manchester Evening News:
Royal Navy warship seizes huge haul of cocaine worth £40m

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[andyluamarta]

Wow, the Royal Navy can arrest drug smugglers in the Caribbean, but can't turn dinghies around in the Channel. Give me strength!

[Alf-Garnish]

They need to address more urgent matters at home. UK is being destroyed yet the navy have done nothing, absolutely nothing to prevent this.

[barukkazhad]

Any chance of them patroling the English channel?

[ScottVaughan-bi]

Yet these traitors will not defend our coast.

[PureBlood-TV-Official]

But they cannot keep the scientists crossing the Channel?

[Alf-Garnish]

They need to address more urgent matters at home. We have been invaded, the navy have done nothing, absolutely nothing to prevent this.

[lordsnooty]

Just stop the boats and worry about the drugs later

[GrahamJackson-js]

How they can stop the drugs but not the people trafickers.

[resurgam]

I don't give a 💩 who does a bag over the weekend.
Defend out borders, what else is the Navy for ffs?

[davidlavery]

Why is the royal navy in the Caribbean when we have an invasion happening in the english channel ?

[deanbembridge]

Patrolling the wrong waters should be deployed in the channel 😕

[photoisca]

H.M.S Trent an ofshore patrol vessel designed to patrol U.K home waters checking on compliance with fishing regulations and assisting with detection of illegal immigrants. Together with two other sister vessels has been dispatched to foreign waters, leaving home waters under resourced. Does anyone smell something fishy?

[BsktImp]

Literally a drop in the ocean. Doesn't even touch the sides of the problem.

[garethhicks]

Protect our borders please #ROYAL NAVY

[Mr_Ashley]

So they can intercept these small boats? Interesting 🤔

[garrybro]

Shame the navy can’t do a job on the English channel when thousands of illegal immigrants are heading here

[ewanrussel]

Seized and then given to who exactly? - and then to who? - convenient isn't it - having the Royal Navy to procure your lucrative black market goods for you. 🃏

[alandoril]

The navy should be defending our borders.

[roninhood]

Excellent, now if you could mosey on over to the English channel and stop the small problem of the Islamic invasion of our home land, that would be great.

[samthomas]

Well, there goes the weekend planned in notttingham 😂