Spain busts drug ring that used 'monkey' swimmers to stash cocaine on ships
Spanish police dismantled a drug-trafficking network that recruited young, proficient swimmers to load cocaine onto Europe-bound ships and intercepted or hijacked vessels near the Gibraltar Strait; the crackdown yielded about 30 arrests and the seizure of 2.4 tons of cocaine, military-grade weapons, ladders, luxury vehicles and cash, following Spain’s recent record cocaine-at-sea seizures.