{"id":22615,"date":"2015-04-22T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22615"},"modified":"2015-04-22T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:53:11","slug":"two-tonnes-of-cocaine-seized-from-trans-atlantic-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/04\/two-tonnes-of-cocaine-seized-from-trans-atlantic-yacht\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Tonnes of Cocaine Seized from Trans Atlantic Yacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Silandra-3-267x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Silandra-3-267x200.jpg\" alt=\"Silandra-3-267x200\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p>The SY<em> Silandra<\/em> was boarded by officers from the French Customs Coastguard 125 miles off Martinique on Wednesday, April 15. The vessel was about to begin a trans-Atlantic crossing. The seizure was the result of a major investigation lasting many months involving the NCA, French, Spanish and Grenadian authorities. \u00a0The three crew members &#8212; two Spanish and one Venezuelan &#8212; were arrested and are now in custody on Martinique. \u00a0The boat was stuffed with 80 bales of cocaine weighing a total of 2.2 tonnes. It is believed to be one of the biggest ever seizures made by the French authorities. \u00a0Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbo.co.uk\/news\/yacht-seized-with-two-tonnes-of-cocaine-on-board-21008#gkRgTMgEVKzrVW6j.99\" target=\"_blank\">www.pbo.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SY Silandra was boarded by officers from the French Customs Coastguard 125 miles off Martinique on Wednesday, April 15. The vessel was about to begin a trans-Atlantic crossing. The seizure was the result of a major investigation lasting many months involving the NCA, French, Spanish and Grenadian authorities. \u00a0The three crew members &#8212; two Spanish and one Venezuelan &#8212; were arrested and are now in custody on Martinique. \u00a0The boat was stuffed with 80 bales of cocaine weighing a total of 2.2 tonnes. It is believed to be one of the biggest ever seizures made by the French authorities. \u00a0Read more at www.pbo.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22624,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615\/revisions\/22624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}