Hiding stowaways, capsized boat lead Colombia navy to nearly 1,000 pounds of cocaine

Officers in the Colombian navy came upon nearly 1,000 pounds of illicit cocaine while working two unrelated incidents in the Caribbean, authorties announced this week.

First, crew members from a coast guard station received a call from a port facility official about the discovery of stowaways on a vessel anchored in the Puerto Bolívar port city. A Coast Guard unit found two people inside the vessel's anchoring system, along with five black bags that "apparently contained illicit substances," according to a news release from the Colombian navy. 

A preliminary identification test found that the bags contained about 285 pounds of cocaine. The navy did not provide any information about the stowaways.