Cocaine worth US$12 million ($2.4 billion) was discovered in a shipment of shrimp from Guyana to New York last week and a man has been arrested.
The New York Daily News reported that federal agents arrested Heeralall Sukdeo and he has been held without bail.
The newspaper reported that a drug-sniffing dog noticed something fishy about a shipping container that arrived at the Red Hook Terminal from Guyana last week and hunted down 268 kilos of