Another drug plane landed in the south early this morning - but this time the traffickers stole away with their cargo.
Police got the call just before 2:00 am - saying that a plane was circling in the area of Kanantik in the Stann Creek District.
By the time the cops got there, all they found were the burnt remains of a Cessna 210 Centurion on the fully paved Kanantik airstrip, also known as the Silver Creek Airport. That landing area is only 4 miles from the coast, and the narcos are believed to have conveyed the cargo to go-fast vessels for onward carriage to Mexico.
How much cargo? Well, the small plane can carry 1,400 pounds and making accommodations for fuel - it could have had about a thousand pounds of cocaine, or slightly more.
As for the plane, the narcos torched that and police say they found no useful evidence in the area.
