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Dominican Republic agents chasing after suspected drug smugglers on the high seas discovered a $9.9 million shipment of cocaine concealed underneath the panels of the speedboat after the vessel was abandoned on a beach.
The National Drug Control Directorate said in a statement Wednesday that security forces spotted the craft vessel approaching the Caribbean nation after it had crossed from South America via the Atlantic Ocean.
Narcotic agents and military servicemen chased after the smugglers on Tuesday and ordered them to stop, but the drug runners made it to the shores of a beach in Enriquillo, a town in the southwestern province of Barahona.
A National Drug Control Directorate agent in Barahona, Dominican Republic, inspects a speedboat Tuesday after it had been abandoned by smugglers that had crossed the Atlantic from South American with a shipment of 248 packages of cocaine, each holding at least one kilo. No arrests had been made as of Wednesday
The Dominican Republic's National Drug Control Directorate revealed Wednesday that agents were able to remove 248 packages of cocaine that has been left behind inside a speedboat on the shores of a
