Italian police and a dog with a fine nose for cocaine found more than 2,700 kilos (about 3 tons) of the drug hidden in 70 tons of boxed bananas shipped from Ecuador, authorities say.
In this image taken from a video provided by the Italian Finance Police, an Italian finance police officer holds bags of cocaine that were found hidden in a container loaded with bananas, at the port of Gioia Tauro, southern Italy, Tuesday, May 16, 2023.
Customs police became suspicious about two containers on a cargo ship that recently arrived at the port of Gioia Tauro, in the “toe” of the Italian peninsula and a stronghold of a ‘ndrangheta organized crime clan. Officers used scanning machines and the dog, named Joel, to uncover packets of cocaine hidden in boxes stacked meters-high in container trucks.
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