Italy: authorities seize 70 connected waterproof packages carrying cocaine in Sicily sea

Italy’s Finance Police pulled 2 tons of cocaine in floating packages out of the sea off the coast of Sicily on Monday morning.

In a press release, the police said a surveillance plane had spotted the large floating packages with an illumination device near the port of Catania.

The 70 floating waterproof packages were held together by a net.

Finance Police in dinghies dragged the floating boxes out of the water and brought them to their headquarters in Catania where they discovered 1600 packets of cocaine weighing a total of 2,000 kilos.

Police estimate that the trove, one of the largest confiscated in Italy, is worth 400 million euros.

The finance police ships scoured the port of Catania on Monday morning looking for signs of boats that might have been involved in the drug operation.