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Posted: Monday, August 2nd, 2004 5:36 AM HST
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Probe launched to find cocaine that disappeared from police station
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MAJURO, Marshall Islands (AP) _ About eleven pounds of confiscated cocaine has gone missing from the national police station on Ebeye Island in the Marshall Islands.
Police Commissioner George Lanwi says investigators from the capital of Majuro were to fly to Ebeye to investigate the disappearance.
Police officials on Ebeye claim their station, which is staffed on a 24-hour basis, was robbed.
Nine Ebeye men have been charged with possession or distribution of cocaine since April.
Officials at the U-S Army's missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll, where Ebeye is located, said they believed virtually all of the drugs involved in the arrests came from cocaine that washed ashore in March.
About 30 two-point-pound bricks of the drug were reported to have washed up. But only 25 were turned in by Ebeye police to their Majuro-based counterparts last week.
(Copyright 2004 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
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