16 Nov 2018

Record 190kg of cocaine found in banana shipment

From Checkpoint, 5:09 pm on 16 November 2018

Almost 200kg of cocaine was found tucked in duffle bags on top of bunches of bananas on a ship from Panama - heading for Auckland. As Lisa Owen reports, police are warning New Zealand is a lucrative market for mainly South American cartels looking to off-load their products during a worldwide drug glut.