Police Find Cocaine – level 2

27-03-2019 15:00

American federal agents seized 537.6 kilograms of cocaine in Philadelphia. A narcotics detective dog alerted them, and later they found the cocaine. This amount of cocaine was worth around $38 million.

Last week in New York, police found1,450 kilograms of cocaine. It was worth around $77 million.

Difficult words: seize (take something illegal), narcotics detective dog (a dog which is trained to smell drugs), alert (warn).

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