Liberian authorities burn $336 million in cocaine as senior police officials are implicated | National News

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian law enforcement agents burned some 4.2 metric tons of cocaine worth about $336 million on Thursday, days after authorities announced the country’s largest-ever drug seizure and implicated senior police officials in the trafficking operation.

Authorities said investigators identified officers who had allegedly helped escort the cocaine after it arrived in Liberia. The chief of the highway patrol and the head of the major crimes unit have been charged, while a deputy police commander at the country’s main airport is also a suspect, Police Inspector General Gregory O.W. Coleman said.