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P&O Aurora in cocaine raid
P&O Aurora is reported to have been involved in a drugs bust where £1 million of cocaine was seized.
American law enforcement agencies said they found 13 kilograms of cocaine on the cruise ship docked in San Francisco last month, according to reports in the Daily Mirror.
A statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said a joint operation among federal agencies and local law-enforcement led to two separate discoveries of a large amount of the drug.
Federal agents are reported to have discovered seven kilos of cocaine in the cabin of an Australian citizen and more than five kilos in another cabin, occupied by New Zealand citizens. All three were arrested.
A P&O spokesman at the company’s Southampton HQ said: "There is an ongoing investigation and we are not at liberty to discuss this further." It added that enquiries should be directed to the Department of Homeland Security.
The ship, on its 2012 world cruise, was in the city overnight, after leaving Curacao and transiting the Panama Canal. After leaving San Francisco it sailed to Honolulu, and is now in New Zealand.
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