In what they’re calling one of the largest cocaine busts in the Port of Savannah’s history, federal authorities say they seized more than 300 pounds of the drug hidden inside a frozen-pineapple container at the Garden City terminal.
The cocaine had an estimated street value of more than $6 million, said Mark Varga, supervisory U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in Savannah.
Varga said Homeland Security agents and Chatham County Sheriff’s Office K-9 officers helped with the search, which wound up uncovering 140 brick-shaped objects inside the container. The total weight of the cocaine was 347 pounds.