Albania police seize 88 lbs. cocaine

Albanian police said they stopped a car at a border crossing with Greece and seized 88 pounds of cocaine.
Three Germans and two Albanians were in the vehicle at the southern Albanian crossing point of Kakavia.

Police officers in Tirana said it was the biggest seizure of contraband drugs in Albania, the Serbian news agency FoNet said Monday.The cocaine, wrapped in 80 packages and stashed in the car, had an estimated value of $660,000 on the street black market, police said.

Albania is on a major Balkan route for smuggling drugs and people from the Middle East and Asia to Europe.