The Nation : Record Cocaine Haul Told

Federal authorities said that 4,620 pounds of cocaine had been found in Florida in a tractor-trailer container aboard a Venezuelan freighter--reportedly the largest cocaine seizure in U.S. history. Officials said the cocaine is worth $46.2 million wholesale and 10 times that amount on the street. The smuggled cocaine arrived at the port of Palm Beach aboard the freighter Malargo I from La Guaira, Venezuela. Two 40-foot-long containers, the kind that are attached to truck tractors for overland hauling, were labeled as carrying household furniture. U.S. Customs inspectors found a hidden compartment in one that held cardboard boxes, taped shut, filled with cocaine. No arrests have been made.