City link to pounds 70m floating drug haul.A LIVERPOOL man was today being questioned after a pounds 70m cocaine haul was found floating off the coast of Ireland. The 22-year-old was among four men arrested by Garda detectives after the record haul recovered off County Cork County Cork (Irish: Contae Chorcaí) is the most southwesterly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. Cork is nicknamed "The Rebel County", as a result of the support of the townsmen of Cork in 1491 for Perkin Warbeck, a in the south of the country this week. Witnesses told how a dinghy capsized off the coast and at least 50 packets of white powder could be seen in the water. The find sparked a huge manhunt man·hunt n. An organized, extensive search for a person, usually a fugitive criminal. manhunt Noun an organized search, usually by police, for a wanted man or fugitive Noun 1. , which led to the man from Liverpool being arrested under the Drug Trafficking Act. Two more men in their 40s were found in Schull, Co Cork, close to the remote Mizen Head peninsula on the most southern tip of Ireland where the drugs bales washed ashore. The pair were said to be in poor health after two days on the run in extremely bad weather in the isolated peninsula jutting jut v. jut·ted, jut·ting, juts v.intr. To extend outward or upward beyond the limits of the main body; project: into the Atlantic. The huge haul is believed to be part of a major international drug smuggling ring destined for English criminal gangs. English authorities already involved in the international probe-which includes Interpol-were checking details to confirm identities. |
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