Cocaine cache’s size overstated
From Times Wire Reports
The Colombian navy said a buried cache of cocaine found along the Pacific Coast was much smaller than initially believed and not the largest drug haul in the nation’s history, as officials first claimed.
It said the amount totaled 14.5 tons, attributing the discrepancy to miscalculations from an initial sight count. The revised figure still makes the seizure the largest by Colombian authorities this year. In May 2005 officials found 16.5 tons of cocaine in an underground chamber.
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