Cari­com IM­PACS, the re­gion­al crime and se­cu­ri­ty agency, says a four-week op­er­a­tion has dis­rupt­ed transna­tion­al smug­gling net­works and seized an es­ti­mat­ed US$54.5 mil­lion in il­lic­it as­sets and con­tra­band.

Op­er­a­tion Eclipse, car­ried out in May, in­volved 14 Cari­com mem­ber states, sev­en as­so­ciate mem­bers and in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners in­clud­ing the US, Cana­da, Colom­bia, France, the UK and IN­TER­POL.

Au­thor­i­ties seized more than 5.2 tonnes of co­caine, val­ued at over US$44 mil­lion, and 1.8 tonnes of mar­i­jua­na, val­ued at more than US$6.8 mil­lion.