5 Arrested in Cocaine Bust Off Spain’s Canary Islands

Police officers discharge drugs from the fishing boat "AKT-1" seized south of the Canary Islands in the port of Las Palmas, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, on April 16, 2022. Borja Suarez/Reuters

MADRID—Five people were arrested when a fishing boat carrying nearly three tons of cocaine was intercepted off the Canary Islands, Spanish police said.

The AKT 1 was stopped on April 13 by a Spanish coastguard patrol about 300 nautical miles south of the Spanish archipelago as it tried to pass itself off as another fishing boat.