Shipping’s billion-dollar coke bust: 8 plead guilty, sentencing begins

Prosecutors called it “the largest cocaine seizure in the 230-year history of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.” Twenty tons of cocaine worth $1 billion was found in seven containers aboard the MSC Gayane at the Philadelphia port on June 17, 2019. On Tuesday, the first of the conspirators — former MSC crewmember Vladimir Penda — was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison for his crime.

Fresh details on who was involved in the conspiracy and how they did it have been revealed in new...

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