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‘High Seas’: Canadian Trio Busted With $23 Million in Cocaine on Cruise Ship

© Dept of Immigration and Border Protection HandoutThe ‘High Seas’: Canadian Trio Busted With $23Million Worth of Cocaine on Cruise Ship in Australia
The ‘High Seas’: Canadian Trio Busted With $23Million Worth of Cocaine on Cruise Ship in Australia - Sputnik International
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Three Canadians have been arrested in one of the largest drug busts in Australian history, after they were caught with 210 pounds of cocaine, valued at around $23 million, on board a cruise ship.

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Working with the US Department of Homeland Security and the Canadian Border Service Agency, Australian Federal Police and border agents boarded the MS Sea Princess as it reached Sydney Harbour after a two-month journey across two oceans. 

Quebec residents André Tamine, 63, Isabelle Lagacé, 28, and Melina Roberge, 22, were arrested after police searched the 2,000 compartments on the ship and found the massive drug stash.

The two women documented their journey together extensively on social media, though it remains unclear whether they knew Tamine.

 

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All three boarded the ship in July in Britain and, over the course of 66 days, the ship stopped in Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and South America, specifically Colombia and Peru, countries infamous for cocaine production.

“The maximum sentence for this charge is life in prison,” the Australian Border Services said in a press release, also stating that the suspects were working with a "very well organized syndicate.”

The trio appeared in court on Monday and did not apply for bail, as it was formally refused.

"These syndicates should be on notice that the Australian Border Force is aware of all the different ways they attempt to smuggle drugs in our country and we are working with a range of international agencies to stop them," Australian Border Force assistant commissioner Clive Murray said in a statement.

The Australian Federal Police stated that they have not ruled out further arrests in connection to the case.

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