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Drugs found in coffee containers

With the securing of some 100 kilograms of highly pure cocaine by Berlin police and customs officials, the second largest seizure of this drug for three decades succeeded . On Aug 18, 2011, six suspects aged 34 to 52 years were arrested in Berlin and Bremerhaven. Investigators were trracking the gang members already since two years, they ran their businesses in a Turkish cultural association in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. The drug had arrived by ship from Panama to Germany and was destined for the Berlin market. The value of the drugs was 4.5 to five million euros, at street level even eight to ten million euros. On Aug 4 the "Carlotta Star" arrived from the port of Cristobal at Bremerhaven. The investigators of the Joint Narcotics Investigation Team followed the ship's position continuously and were mainly interested in a shipment of five containers of green coffee from Peru. In one of the containers the cocaine should be hidden. The same afternoon two suspected couriers opened a sealed container in the free port of Bremerhaven and removed three bags. The suspects were tracked to an apartment in Bremerhaven, where the couriers prepared the drugs for further transport by car.