A 30-ton cache of cocaine, heroin and marijuana valued at US $822 million was seized in an international police operation, the European Union law enforcement agency Europol said Tuesday. The operation led by Interpol targeted the maritime trafficking of drugs and illicit firearms by organized crime groups across Central America and the Caribbean. Police arrested 142 people and seized 15 vessels, 42 guns and approximately US $170,000 in cash in the operation, dubbed Lionfish, according to a report of DPA. "The operation was coordinated in response to growing evidence of the organized crime in the trafficking of drugs and firearms in the Central America and Caribbean regions due to its strategic location," Europol said in a press release. The operation involved 34 countries and territories in Europe, North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
