Drug kingpin convicted in case involving cocaine-smuggling submarine

Drug kingpin convicted in case involving cocaine-smuggling submarine

DETROIT — An Albanian man who prosecutors said was building a submarine to smuggle cocaine to Europe faces up to life in federal prison after jurors Friday convicted him of heading an international drug ring bankrolled by a Grosse Pointe…

The National Directorate of Drug Control (DNCD) reported on Friday that, together with other institutions, they seized 543 packages of cocaine and marijuana and arrested three Dominicans, at the end of an operation of about 10 hours that ended in Caribbean waters near Beata Island in the south-west of the country. The operational teams after receiving an alert from a possible disembarkation with an indeterminate amount of narcotic substances, ac…