The Nation - News from Nov. 19, 1987

Federal agents confiscated more than three tons of cocaine hidden in hollowed-out lumber at a suburban warehouse in Miami, calling it the biggest single seizure of the drug in the United States. No immediate arrests were made. The wholesale value of the 6,292 pounds of cocaine was estimated at $62 million, said Paul A. Teresi, agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Fort Lauderdale. The drug was in a cargo shipment from Costa Rica that arrived Tuesday at Port Everglades on a Honduran-registered ship. The shipment came under suspicion because of the cargo manifest and because of information the DEA had received, Teresi said.