New details in $1 billion drug bust show how smugglers snuck 16.5 tons of cocaine onto cargo ship.
It wasn’t until after a swarm of agents from the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and three separate police agencies had boarded the MSC Gayane and swabbed the second mate's arms and hands and the test came back positive for traces of cocaine that he started talking, according to a criminal complaint -- but the story he told was compelling.
Crew member Fonofaavae Tiasaga also told authorities that he assisted in loading bales of cocaine that were brought alongside the ship by smaller boats both before and after they docked in Peru. Tiasaga also told authorities that on an earlier stretch of the most recent trip, at least six boats approached the MSC Gayane during the voyage between Chile and Panama and delivered bales of cocaine, which were hoisted onto the Gayane with a crane that was operated by Durasevidc. The boats also delivered replacement seals to reseal the shipping containers on the Gayane, Tiasaga told investigators.
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