St. Martin News Network

Little Bonaire (Klein Bonaire) : --- Authorities in Bonaire are investigating the circumstances of why a small aircraft fell in the vicinity of Little Bonaire. According to information, reaching SMN News a small aircraft fell in Bonaire sometime after 9 pm on Tuesday night. Officer Junior Lopez in an interview with SMN News said police received several phone calls from residents who said they saw a fireball and heard a loud noise in the area. Lopez said when they received the information they immediately requested help from the coast guard. Lopez said authorities reached the scene about 10:20 pm and they managed to recover a dead body. Lopez further explained they were told that someone was screaming in the area and they continued the search, which revealed two bales of cocaine. The search he said continued on Wednesday morning and police along with the coast guard found another body and 12 other larges packages of cocaine. Lopez said that so far police recovered some 14 packages of cocaine weighing 410 Kilos; police also recovered a very small part of the aircraft.

The officer said that so far police has no clue as to where the aircraft was coming from; neither do they know where it was heading. Police is yet to identify the two bodies that were found.

According to Lopez the investigation is continuing.

3 Comments

Dale October, 15, 2009, 02:34 72.252.9.52 Votes: +1	Sorry to say but this is good news. Two lives taken in order to spare the hundreds if not thousands of lives that would have been lost to their drug racketeering. report abuse vote down vote up
slamdunk October, 15, 2009, 12:52 72.252.9.58 Votes: +0	it was most likely shot down by our marines/navy/costguard if so,.... good job guys. no regrest, no mercy report abuse vote down vote up
think again October, 15, 2009, 18:31 200.7.52.88 Votes: +0	to dale boy you just like the american don't be a idiot drugs don't kill nobody in st maarten over 15 years but check the american products which is gun and try count the dead woman and man cant count stop repeating what oher people say think for self if coke was made in a america it would of been just is good as their guns when drugs kill 10 guns kill1000 not even near by so stop thinking like a crab brains in your back report abuse vote down vote up