Costa Rican authorities seized 2 tons of cocaine that were found hidden inside a container in APM Terminals in Moín, Limón.

Scanners showed something suspicious and the Drug Control Police proceeded to inspect the container which was loaded with pineapples in route Costa Rica – Belgium, among the cargo police officers found 2,000 packages of cocaine each weighing approximately 1 kilogram.

This is the second load of cocaine found inside a container this year, the first one was back in January when authorities seized 110 kilograms of this drug in a container that had Spain as its destination.

In 2020 Drug Control Police seized 16,192 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside 18 containers some in the port of Moin, Limon and others in Caldera, Puntarenas, while in 2019 the total confiscated was 5,927 kilograms in 10 containers.