Latest drug seizures bring year total to 48 tons

Drug prosecutors in Colón and Guna Yala, together with units of the National Aeronaval Service (Senafront) and the National Border Service (Senan), seized 1,700 packages of illicit substance from a boat  near Isla Tigre, in the Guna Yala region on Friday adding to record  interceptions this year

So far some 22 tons of drugs have been seized in the Panamanian Caribbean, and a total of 48 tons have been retained throughout the national territory, security agencies said during a press conference in Cocolí.