利比里亚警方在首都蒙罗维亚东部杜阿松镇实施的突袭行动中,缉获了街道价值超过370万美元的可卡因,这是该国有史以来最大规模的毒品缉获案[1]。
警察局长格雷戈里·科尔曼表示,这次行动是警方长达一年半针对毒贩网络调查的结果[1]。他指出,"2018年至2023年间,主要贩运和过境活动明显回潮。在过去一年半,我们一直在监视他们,这就是行动的结果"[1]。
数人因此被捕,包括两名外国人和多名利比里亚籍嫌疑人[1]。其中一名外国人持有西班牙和哥伦比亚护照,另一人持塞尔维亚护照[1]。
副总统杰里迈亚·库恩表示,被发现有罪的人将"感受法律的全部威力"[1]。
根据相关信息,西非地区至少30%运往欧洲的可卡因现在流经该地区[1],2025年西非地区的可卡因缉获量约达30吨[1]。
Liberian authorities have recovered cocaine valued at over $370 million in a raid on Duazon town, approximately 20 kilometers east of the capital Monrovia, marking the country's largest drug seizure on record [1]. The operation resulted from an 18-month investigation into trafficking networks, with multiple arrests including foreign nationals holding Spanish, Colombian, and Serbian passports [1].
Police Commissioner Gregory Coleman stated that major trafficking and transit activities have resurged notably between 2018 and 2023, describing the raid as the culmination of sustained surveillance efforts [1]. "Over the past year and a half, we have been monitoring them, and this is the result of that operation," he said [1]. Several Liberians were also detained alongside the foreign suspects [1].
Vice President Jeremiah Koun pledged that those found guilty would "feel the full force of the law" [1]. The seizure reflects the region's growing role in cocaine trafficking, with at least 30 percent of cocaine destined for Europe now passing through West Africa, where authorities confiscated approximately 30 tons of the drug in 2025 [1].