Cocaine container busted in Jamaica was loaded, sealed

The container, in which $700M in cocaine was found among logs when it arrived in Jamaica, was loaded and sealed the day before it left these shores.

Reliable sources told this newspaper that while the logs were cleared for shipping by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) quite some time before the March 16 bust, it was only on March 11 that the logs were loaded into the container at the Caribbean Resources Ltd (CRL) establishment in Houston on the East Bank. The container was then taken to the John Fernandes wharf the same day and it left on March 12 for Jamaica.

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