By AFPMore by this AuthorNew York,US authorities on Monday announced the seizure of nearly 1.5 metric tons of cocaine with a street value of $77 million, the biggest drug haul in nearly 25 years at the port of New York/Newark. Sixty bundles of the white powder weighing 3,200 pounds were found in a container at the port on February 28, the Drug Enforcement Administration said. No arrests have been made in the case, which remains under investigation. "Cocaine, New York's nemesis of the 90s, is back," DEA special agent in charge Ray Donovan said. The United States, the world's largest consumer of illegal drugs, is currently experiencing a deadly epidemic of opioid use.

Source: Daily Nation March 12, 2019 06:22 UTC