21 TONS OF COKE

PANAMA CITY, Panama - Panamanian police seized a boat off the nation's
Pacific coast carrying 21.4 tons of cocaine in one of the biggest
maritime cocaine busts anywhere on record, officials said Monday.

National police working with agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency seized the boat on Sunday near the island of Coiba, said a
police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not
authorized to speak on the record.

Police arrested 12 men on the boat, including Mexicans and
Panamanians, and another two suspects in Panama City in connection
with the drugs, the official said. The boat, which was sailing under a
Panamanian flag, was being transported to Panama City on Monday, he
said.