Biggest cocaine seizure in Mexico

Published: 8:59AM Wednesday November 07, 2007 Source: ONE News

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Mexican authorities have revealed what they're claiming is the world's biggest seizure of cocaine.

Police found 23 tonnes of the drug on a ship from Colombia, docked at the port city of Manzanillo.

The cocaine was in more than twenty thousand packets. Police say the shipment had a street value of more than half a billion dollars.

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