Two Nabbed Over Botched 560 Kilogram Cocaine Import Off WA

Two men are behind bars, accused of a botched attempt to retrieve more than half a tonne of cocaine from the ocean that had been dropped overboard from a bulk cargo carrier. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says the audacious plan came undone when a 45-year-old man got into trouble and needed rescuing from his seven-metre fishing boat on Aug. 7, off the Western Australia (WA) coast at Denham. Two Queensland men have now been extradited to WA, charged over their alleged involvement in the bust worth more than $200 million (US$131 million), which the AFP says was organised by a transnational drug trafficking criminal syndicate....