Four arrested after half a tonne of cocaine worth £40m is found in village pub car park

Four men person been arrested aft fractional a tonne of cocaine worthy £40m was recovered successful a colony pub car park.   

They were detained by National Crime Agency officers connected suspicion of conspiracy to import people A drugs astatine astir 8.30am yesterday successful Lelley, East Yorkshire.

The arrests travel after the find of astir 500 kilos of cocaine successful the backmost of a van successful the car parkland of the Stags Head Inn successful Lelley.

The pub declined to remark but a root adjacent to the premises stressed that the find was successful nary mode connected to immoderate members of staff.  

Officers judge that the drugs had been transferred from a larger vas sailing disconnected the seashore of Hull successful East Yorkshire utilizing a rigid-hulled inflatable vessel conscionable a fewer hours before. 

The smaller vessel was recovered abandoned connected rocks astatine Easington Beach, County Durham.

The men, 3 from Scotland and 1 from Colombia, present stay successful constabulary custody.

NCA Senior Investigating Officer Alan French said: 'This was a important magnitude of cocaine and its seizure volition beryllium a sizeable stroke to the organised transgression radical which attempted to smuggle it into the UK.

'There's nary uncertainty these drugs would person been sold into communities astir the UK, fuelling further transgression and exploitation.

'Working with our instrumentality enforcement partners we are determined to bash each we tin to disrupt transgression activity, and support the UK's borderline security.

'Our probe continues pursuing these arrests.'

The NCA cognition was supported by Humberside Police, the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit and Border Force.