1.6 tonnes of cocaine worth £120m found in charcoal @ UK port

- firearms seized; 2 men arrested

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The drugs were found when officials searched a container carrying 800 sacks of charcoal. Photo: NCA

It is believed to be the first time cocaine disguised as charcoal in this way has been found in the UK. Photo: NCA

COALVILLE, Leicestershire, UK- A haul of 1.6 tonnes of cocaine disguised as charcoal and worth over £120m has been seized at a port in the United Kingdom (UK).

Multiple media entities in the UK, including the BBC and Sky News reported today, June 16, 2023, on the discovery.

The drugs were found among 800 sacks of charcoal on a ship that arrived into London Gateway port from Panama last week, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said, adding that the Class A drug was found by Border Force officers.

It is thought to be the first time cocaine hidden in this manner has been seen in the UK.

2 arrested; firearms recovered

Sky News said armed police and NCA officers raided two farm properties in Leicestershire on Thursday after arresting two men, 50 and 31, in Coalville town centre.

They are being held on suspicion of importing class A drugs.

Two self-loading pistols and a rifle were found during a search of one of the properties.

41 Responses to “1.6 tonnes of cocaine worth £120m found in charcoal @ UK port”

Greg (16/06/2023, 19:13) Like (24) Dislike (21) Reply
Do you see? They need to clean up all of their low-down dirty mess and leave the little BVI alone. The huge U.K. is one of the biggest drug runners on this earth. Stay the hell away from us!
- Arrion (17/06/2023, 09:21) Like (21) Dislike (6) Reply
  The United States and the U.K. are the same. Big bad countries with big drug dealers and users, crime, and homelessness. Remember when the U.S. couldn't get its way with Cuba so many years ago? What they did to Cuba was a crime and should have not been allowed through the United Nations. The U.S. bombed their own World Trade Buildings just to blame it on the Arabs because the U.S. wanted their OIL. Release Fahie and the Maynards! I'm sure they will not venture into your corrupt wastelands again. Your big countries are nothing but PHONY-LYING RACIST HYPOCRITES!
- @Greg (17/06/2023, 09:40) Like (15) Dislike (1) Reply
  Catching it is cleaning it up! Perhaps we should focus within.
  - To: @Greg (17/06/2023, 13:28) Like (9) Dislike (3) Reply
    Anyone with sense is for a crime free place and we all need to look within and outside. The point is the Governor and UK Commissioner of police is intentionally trying to portray the BVI to the world as the main bad crime, drug and gun country and people in the world. This is wrong. We are aware of their evil plot, and we intend to stop them as it is not right. They have some of the worse crime, drug, and gun crimes in the world in the UK and the facts support this statement, so they need to stop trying to portray the BVI as if only bad things happen in the BVI. It is intentional and it is wrong. They need to stop and balance the many good in the BVI with the few bad. Right now, in their sight, nothing is good about the BVI and its people and that is what they keep branding the BVI to the world as every time they speak and act. All this is to try to justify their high handed actions to try to unjustly take over.
Oh No (16/06/2023, 19:26) Like (26) Dislike (9) Reply
Such things does not happen in England
Only in the Virgin Islands, if you don’t believe me ask His Excellency, The Governor; The Commissioner of Police or Ask those Under the Cover Scotland Yard……The same Group up in here painting my country Black while where they come from doing the very same thing and every man mount shut

will there a press conference at Government House or Police Headquarters

What you reading about-is simply what was intercepted because one can only imagine the tons which knowingly slips by the Customs Officials

thing to tell the King
cnn (16/06/2023, 19:43) Like (11) Dislike (7) Reply
Oh no this don’t happen in the uk only the bvi ha he
Tea & scones for everyone!! (16/06/2023, 20:19) Like (14) Dislike (1) Reply
Great job UK police.
Jeezum (16/06/2023, 20:40) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
BOMBOCLAT
HMMM (16/06/2023, 23:07) Like (37) Dislike (9) Reply
I wonder what the double standard Governor John Ramkin will say about this because he speaks as if only the BVI have trouble with drugs. SMDH.
TO VINO (16/06/2023, 23:10) Like (28) Dislike (7) Reply
Please do not be discouraged by the few UK bloggers who do not like when you post news out of the UK. Keep doing it until the people of the BVI wake up and realize that we are being brainwashed by the Governor & UK Officials and also set up to not believe in ourselves and only in UK leadership when in fact they cannot handle their own affairs.
Nah (16/06/2023, 23:11) Like (23) Dislike (6) Reply
Base on how the UK Governor and UK Commissioner of Police speaks one would never believe these things happen in the UK.
My Take (16/06/2023, 23:12) Like (17) Dislike (8) Reply
I wonder if these racists colonial masters will blame these guns and drugs on the BVI who do not manufacture them.
East End woman (16/06/2023, 23:13) Like (9) Dislike (6) Reply
I will wait on the Governor press conference on this one...
facts (16/06/2023, 23:15) Like (7) Dislike (7) Reply
The police needs to be under an independent body and not under the Governor to avoid abuse of power & agendas being carried out rather than a pure intention to solve crime.
What? (16/06/2023, 23:16) Like (27) Dislike (4) Reply
This is more drugs in one haul in the UK than what they say they capture in the BVI for the last two years.
vg youth (16/06/2023, 23:18) Like (22) Dislike (5) Reply
I am against crime and drugs but I am also against the Governor always speaking in his press conferences as if guns, crime, and drugs are a problem unique to the BVI only. This is worldwide and he needs to stop always trying to brand the BVI & the majority of the people as a bad place. It is wrong and he is now wilful with it.
The spin (16/06/2023, 23:21) Like (9) Dislike (7) Reply
The Governor & his UK gang will spin this as their UK law enforcement agencies are working and their strategy is working. While in the BVI under the same circumstances they will spin it as the BVI is corrupt and needs cleaning up. The slavery mill is grinding slow but grinding still.
Oh Please (16/06/2023, 23:23) Like (10) Dislike (4) Reply
"It is thought to be the first time cocaine hidden in this manner has been seen in the UK." OH please! They mean this is the first they chose to siege it. Someone must be did not get their cut this time.
questionable (16/06/2023, 23:26) Like (12) Dislike (5) Reply
Good old, upstanding UK, where nothing bad ever happens.
Fair (16/06/2023, 23:29) Like (8) Dislike (4) Reply
A search like this is fair enough but this police act the Governor is dictating to be passed to allow the police to search our homes without a warrant along with other high handed authority he wants to give them in the law cannot be allowed to pass. It is a violation of our democratic rights. Also, we know the Governor is in charge of the police and he has an agenda to fulfill and will abuse his powers in this respect on every gossip they hear and on anyone who opposes their racist regime. WAKE UP BVI.
Well (17/06/2023, 05:53) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
Monkey see monkey do you all are one family so what that the news
THATS ONE THAT GOT THROUGH (17/06/2023, 06:21) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
BUT THE BRITS PICKED UP ON IT ,WHAT YOU GANSTERS GONNA TRY NEXT TO CONTAMINATE HUMAN LIVES FOR THE MIGHTY DOLLAR ???? / WHICH YOU CANNOT TAKE WITH YOU DOWNSTAIRS ( RIP ) IN YOUR CASE IT WILL BE WITH THE DEVIL FOR ALL THE INNOCENT LIVE LOST IN YOUR QUEST TO GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD ???? AND LOOSE YOUR SOUL IN
THE PROCESS INSTEAD
As always (17/06/2023, 07:59) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
the show must go on…
Damn (17/06/2023, 08:08) Like (8) Dislike (9) Reply
Racist oppressors
See it deh (17/06/2023, 08:22) Like (9) Dislike (11) Reply
Free the drew. The UK is an evil empire. Colonizers.
Pretender (17/06/2023, 08:34) Like (4) Dislike (6) Reply
Dog know yo name ,without or with your WIG
How stupid can you be? (17/06/2023, 09:23) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
Really….shipping charcoal from Panama? To a place called Coalville? Might as well try coconuts from Iceland.
Hmm (17/06/2023, 10:47) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
So this is what they are snorting? I guess white aint right anymore and black powder is all the rage huh
Hmm (17/06/2023, 10:47) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
So this is what they are snorting? I guess white aint right anymore and black powder is all the rage huh
UK Customs (17/06/2023, 11:11) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
seizing large quantities of contraband is good training for their next assignment to the BVI!
Head Coach (17/06/2023, 11:39) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
There it is!!! I was looking for that.
Ho,ho (17/06/2023, 12:17) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
The Ship came from Panama,Stop in BVI T ,then to UK
Oooop! (17/06/2023, 12:38) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
Well this is a bumpy special
You will see (17/06/2023, 12:42) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
Someone is living a Majestic Life
The bum (17/06/2023, 13:05) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
The distraction was on the bvi while those officials who live here shipping drugs to uk from bvi.
Yet (17/06/2023, 15:32) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
Yet it appears only in the virgin islands this occurs. The whole world in turmoil.
Disinterested (17/06/2023, 15:51) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
Why are people so surprised concerning the large haul of drugs in the UK? If we had been keeping up it would have been crystal clear that the UK had a drug problem ie, drug demand problem, etc. The UK is not this crime free locale. The Governor and Police Commissioner may try to spin, distract, project, otherwise , promoting the BVI as a drug haven , corrupt, crime ridde, etc, place. Is not it interesting that people who are supposed to be representing the BVI openly promotes it in a negatively light. This is tearing down the nest that you are supposed to be feathering. Well, colonialism among a litany of other not so warm things is about standards, ie, one standard for the host country and yet another for the colonies. We cannot be so gullible to believe the lies that colonies tell us. As Shakespeare says in the Tempest: “ What is past os prologue.” We can bury our heads and pretend to the blind, deaf, etc, if we want to .
THE BLAME GAME AS USUAL (17/06/2023, 16:25) Like (1) Dislike (3) Reply
ONE OERSON WRITING AND BLOGGING USING ALL KINDS OF NAMES TO CREATE FAKE NUMBERS , DID THE GOVERNOR SAY THAT THE UK AIN'T HAVE ANY DRUG PROBLEMS ???? ? DID HE SAY ONLY THE BVI HAS A DRUG PROBLEM ???? ? SO WHY IS THIS WIGGED PROPAGANDA EXPERT PUSHING THESE RACIAL LYRICS USING DIFFERENT NAMES TO PROMOTE HIS HIS EVIL AGENDER ? THE DEVIL REALLY HAS HIS HANDS ON YOU ????
- Upper Case (17/06/2023, 19:44) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
  The upper case bandit has nerves accusing otherpeople of using different blogging names. Reallly!!! When people try to distract, spin, etc what others are supposedly doing they are usually in essence projecting what they are doing. Projecting is straight out of Donald Trump delay, distracting, spin school/playbook.
... (17/06/2023, 21:24) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
mhh have to be someone pretending to be an idiot to come on typing in uppercase
Eldread (23/06/2023, 07:07) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
It's time they stop the dollerisation of drugs, to make it sound lucrative and glamorous but instead project it's devastated effect on families, fatherless and motherless children, prostitution house breaking and killing and all the scum of the earth behavior. With that amount a drugs, a population from virgin island Puerto Rico over to Miami could be effected with same level of social conditions created by this drug that will retard a countries gdp. it's hell across the earth in that volume of drugs, so good riddance and may there continue to be a happy human family safe from such trauma.

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