Big Marijuana Seizure
<i> Reuters</i>
LITTLEHAMPTON, England —
Police said Saturday that they had seized 2.7 tons of marijuana worth $9.61 million and had arrested 18 people in the fifth major seizure of the drug in Britain in a week.
The latest drug seizure was made Friday night when customs and police officers boarded a British-registered fishing vessel that had picked up the drugs at sea from a “mother ship” and landed at Littlehampton in southern England.
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