RIGA - Baltic drug shippers put French police at the top of the chart for the all-time biggest marijuana bust in French history on Feb. 17. Eleven Latvians, two Poles and one Estonian presumably had a bad day when the French police boarded their 40-meter (120-foot) fishing trawler and found 23 tons of marijuana wrapped in 170 tons of fish.Police boarded the Nemo after agents in a helicopter spotted it cruising across the English Channel toward Boulogne-sur-Mer on the French coast near Calais.Latvian fishermen aboard the ship have been released, but the bust comes just as Latvia is getting ...
The article you requested can be accessed only by subscribing to the online version of The Baltic Times. If you are already subscribed to The Baltic Times, please authorize yourself.
In case you don't have a subscription yet - please visit our
SUBSCRIPTION section
