Cocaine worth $44 million found in onion rings cargo at UK border

Border Force officers noticed the 922-pound (418 kg) cargo on Thursday night after halting a lorry, which was headed to the UK, in response to the nation's National Crime Agency (NCA). Piotr Perzenowski, 30, has since been charged with smuggling the cargo, and appeared at Kent's Folkestone Magistrates' Court on Saturday morning. "This was a really significant amount of drugs taken out of circulation," NCA's department commander Mark Howes stated."The seizure will deprive the organised crime group responsible for them of profit which would have fuelled more offending," Howes added.