Drug Bust on the MSC Opera: Cocaine in Your Cheetos?

The local police in Madeira arrested a dozen people after the police boarded a cruise ship at port in Funchal for involvement in smuggling cocaine weighing around 18 kilograms and worth two million pounds (£) aboard a cruise ship operated by MSC.  The police were assisted by Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA). The police detained twelve people when the MSC Opera cruise ship docked at Funchal on March 24th after sailing from the from the Caribbean, according to the Telegraph newspaper. The MSC ship had previously sailed from Havana (Cuba), Montego Bay (Jamaica), George Town (Grand Cayman), Cozumel (Mexico), Philipsburg (St. Maarten), and St. Johns (Antigua) before crossing the Atlantic. The cocaine had reportedly been hidden in “crisp” packets (a/k/a bags of chip) which had been stashed in suitcases. The police arrested six passengers on the cruise ship after it travelled from the Caribbean to Madeira. The other six individuals who were…

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