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Four men arrested with 500kg of cocaine off the Mexican coast

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The Mexican navy has presented to the media four men who have been arrested on alleged charges of cocaine trafficking. The suspects were aboard the yacht “Fiona” when they were spotted by a US navy ship near to a group of volcanic islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico. When the suspects realised they had been spotted by the US navy they supposedly began to throw packets into the sea, set fire to the yacht and jumped into the sea.

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    Submitted by ridotriawan on Thu, 03/09/2009 - 16:29

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