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Seven arrested in connection with 15m cocaine seizure

Police were continuing to question a gang suspected of trying to smuggle cocaine with a street value of £15m into the UK yesterday.
A total of seven men were arrested at the port of Harwich in Essex and in subsequent raids across the UK after police discovered 140kg of the drug – one of the biggest ever cocaine seizures on the British mainland– in two lorries on Saturday morning.

CID officers from Cumbria police had stopped and searched the vehicles after receiving a tip-off. In a separate incident, a 19-year-old German woman was allegedly caught trying to bring cocaine worth £500,000 into Britain through the port of Ramsgate in Kent. The second seizure was also made on Saturday,
when UK Border Agency officers stopped Jasmin Bollinger's car and discovered around 11kg of the class-A drug inside after she had disembarked a ferry from Ostend, Belgium.


Ms Bollinger appeared at Dover magistrates' court yesterday, where she failed to enter a plea. She was remanded in custody to reappear at the same court on 8 May. http://www.independent.co.uk

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