Three held in multi-million dollar cocaine bust in Caribbean Sea

MIAMI, United States (CMC) — United States federal prosecutors have indicted three foreigners in a US$27 million cocaine bust in the Caribbean Sea.
They said Beat Jegge of Switzerland and Daniel Velazquez and Julio Claro Alvarez of Colombia were arrested by US Coast Guard officers after their suspicious boat was interdicted somewhere off the Panama coast.
Authorities said the men appeared in US federal district court here, where they pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to distribute 2,200 pounds of cocaine, which were “tightly wrapped in plastic bags”.