Colombian police seize 1.2 tons of cocaine

BOGOTA -- Colombian police seized 1,234 kilograms of cocaine in the country's northern Cordoba department, and captured two suspected members of a major criminal ring, authorities said on Thursday.

The cocaine, with an estimated street value of 30 million U.S. dollars, was found inside a tank truck traveling on a road between Cordoba and neighboring Antioquia department.

The cache of illicit drugs was heading for the European and U.S. markets, where it would fetch three times its original value, a police report said.

The two suspected gang members captured attempted to offer the officers on duty 300 million Colombian pesos (about $150,300) to let them go, police said.

The latest seizure brings to 2,284 kilograms the amount of cocaine confiscated in the past two months in Cordoba.