General News of Sunday, 16 July 2006
Source: Evening Star
United Kingdom customs officers today revealed they had foiled a plot to smuggle cocaine through the Port of Felixstowe.
During a search of a 40-foot container, which arrived from Africa earlier this week, investigators found the Class A drug concealed among a consignment of furniture. The street value of the powder, which weighed one kilo, is around £60,000. Investigations are still on-going in a bid to trace who was responsible for the attempted importation and where the cocaine was destined for. The container was offloaded from a ship after arriving from Ghana. Before officers checked the load on Tuesday afternoon, a high-tech probe was inserted into the container to ensure there were no banned or potentially dangerous gases. After establishing it was safe, a specially-trained sniffer dog was sent in to roam around the consignment of handicrafts and cane furniture packed inside. However, despite its search nothing untoward was found.